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Experimental analysis and micromechanical models of high performance renewable agave reinforced biocomposites

2017

Abstract The present work deals with the experimental study of high performance biocomposites reinforced with optimized agave fibers, as well as the successive implementation of reliable micromechanical models that can be used at the design stage. In detail, systematical experimental analyses performed on biocomposites with epoxy or PLA matrix, have permitted to highlight that for short fibers biocomposites the reinforcing leads to a significant improvement of the matrix stiffness, whereas the particular damage mechanism based essentially on the matrix failure with consequent tensile failure of the fibers aligned with the applied load, does not allow to obtain an actual reinforcing of the m…

Materials scienceGreen epoxyTheoretical modelsMicromechanics modelCeramics and Composite02 engineering and technologyIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSettore ING-IND/14 - Progettazione Meccanica E Costruzione Di Macchine0203 mechanical engineeringUltimate tensile strengthmedicineMechanics of MaterialFiberComposite materialSISALcomputer.programming_languagePressingbiologyMechanical EngineeringAgave fiberStiffnessEpoxy021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyAgavebiology.organism_classification020303 mechanical engineering & transportsMechanics of Materialsvisual_artCeramics and Compositesvisual_art.visual_art_mediumPLAmedicine.symptom0210 nano-technologycomputerBiocomposite
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Toward high performance renewable agave reinforced biocomposites: Optimization of fiber performance and fiber-matrix adhesion analysis

2017

Abstract The increasing sensitivity toward the environmental pollution and the recent laws on the environmental protection, have led to an increasing attention to the so called biocomposites, i.e. to ecofriendly or renewable composite materials, obtained from biopolymers reinforced by natural fibers. Although the contribution of various works reported in literature, focused on biocomposites reinforced by agave fibers, such materials are still exclusively used in the automotive industry for non-structural applications, and the implementation of high performance biocomposites for semi-structural and structural applications, is an expected, but not yet reached objective. Therefore, the present…

Materials scienceThermoplasticGreen epoxyThermosetting polymerEnvironmental pollutionCeramics and Composite02 engineering and technology010402 general chemistry01 natural sciencesIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSettore ING-IND/14 - Progettazione Meccanica E Costruzione Di MacchineFiber matrix adhesionMechanics of MaterialFiberComposite materialAgave fibers; Biocomposites; Green epoxy; Micromechanics; PLA; Ceramics and Composites; Mechanics of Materials; Mechanical Engineering; Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringMicromechanicchemistry.chemical_classificationbiologybusiness.industryMechanical EngineeringAgave fiberEpoxy021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyAgavebiology.organism_classification0104 chemical sciencesRenewable energychemistryMechanics of Materialsvisual_artCeramics and Compositesvisual_art.visual_art_mediumPLA0210 nano-technologybusinessBiocomposite
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Implementation of eco-sustainable biocomposite materials reinforced by optimized agave fibers

2018

Abstract Although several works have recently been published in literature about biocomposites, i.e. about composites with polymeric matrix reinforced by natural fibers, only a few articles have been devoted to the implementation of high performance biocomposites for structural and semi-structural applications. The present study aims to give a contribution by considering biocomposites obtained by using an eco-friendly partially bio-based epoxy (green epoxy) and sisal (agave sisalana fibers) obtained by a proper optimization process. Through a systematic experimental analysis, three different types of biocomposites obtained with a suitable manufacturing process, such as random short fiber bi…

Materials sciencebiocomposite02 engineering and technology010402 general chemistry01 natural sciencesbiocomposites; natural fibers; agave fibers; eco-friendly matrices.Settore ING-IND/14 - Progettazione Meccanica E Costruzione Di MacchineFiberComposite materialSISALEarth-Surface Processescomputer.programming_languagebiologyManufacturing processeco-friendly matrices.Polymeric matrixEpoxy021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyAgavebiology.organism_classificationnatural fiber0104 chemical sciencesagave fibervisual_artvisual_art.visual_art_mediumBiocomposite0210 nano-technologycomputer
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