Experimental Analysis and Simulation of Novel Technical Textile Reinforced Composite of Banana Fibre

Monzón, Mario; Paz, Rubén; Verdaguer, Martí; Suárez, Luis; Badalló, Pere; Diaz, Naryttza N.

doi:10.3390/ma12071134

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“…The use of natural fiber from banana crops continues to expand with a wide range of applications, such as the improvement of reinforced technical textile composite by compression molding [12], the use of short fiber for rotational molding composite [6], filters for water purification [13] or the production of micro/nano fibers for the paper making sector [14]. Short fibers can be more easily adapted to the most widespread plastic forming processes, such as injection molding, being therefore a suitable fiber configuration for the reinforcement of injected plastic components.…”

Section: Fiber Specific Tensilementioning

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Thermal and Mechanical Characterization of Banana Fiber Reinforced Composites for Its Application in Injection Molding

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Several natural materials and vegetable waste have relevant mechanical properties, mainly in its fiber format. Particularly, banana fiber (BF) provides a close behavior to the widely spread glass fibers, which places it in an advantageous position for use as a reinforcing material in plastic composites. This work characterizes the behavior of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), high impact polystyrene (HIPS), and high density polyethylene (HDPE) reinforced with short fibers of bananas from the Canary Islands for its application in molding processes. Several thermal analyses (Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), and Melt Flow Index (MFI)) and mechanical tests (tensile, flexural, impact, and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)) were carried out in composites with different percentages of banana fiber. The thermal results show that the use of banana fiber is viable as a reinforcement in composites for injection molding processes and the mechanical tests indicate an increase in stiffness and an improvement in maximum flexural stress by increasing the fiber content in composites, so the banana fiber turns out to be a natural alternative for the reinforcement of injected plastic components.

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Section: Fiber Specific Tensilementioning

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Thermal and Mechanical Characterization of Banana Fiber Reinforced Composites for Its Application in Injection Molding

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“…In addition to the specimens manufactured in this work, there have been added specimens from BANTEX project to observe the differences among fabrics and number of layers. The manufacturing and process conditions are shown in a previously published paper [35]. Table 1 summarizes the different formulations of composites that have been tested.…”

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“…Regarding to banana fabric (PL), a reduction of the tensile properties, especially the max stress, is obtained due to the fabric having a 50% of wool, which has low mechanical properties. The reason of using wool to obtain the yarn was the difficulty to obtain pure banana yarn with the available equipment, therefore it is necessary to improve the process to achieve almost 100% of pure banana fibre [35]. On the other hand, when it is added cotton in the warp of the textile (PL+AL), a slightly increase in the elastic modulus and a considerably improvement of the max stress is observed.…”

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“…As a summary, the best results in terms of fire protection were obtained for the sample of banana nonwoven with 60% additive because the combustion of any of the test samples does not occur (Figure 11). This fact is because these plates have two layers of plastic with additive, so if one of them does not have a good [35] distribution of the additive, the next layer compensates it, but it is necessary to improve the mechanical properties. In addition, the fibre percentage is around 9% (Table 1), therefore, the combustibility of the fibre doesn't have a high influence.…”

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Study and fire test of banana fibre reinforced composites with flame retardance properties

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AbstractThe interest in natural fibre reinforced composites is growing in industrial applications due to natural fibres being an attractive alternative to synthetic fibres. However, it is necessary to improve the fire behaviour of the material because natural fibres have a high combustibility. The objective of this work is to evaluate the fire resistance of polymer composites reinforced with natural fibre fabric, using magnesium hydroxide as flame retardant for the polymeric matrix and alkali treatment for the fibre. The types of fabric are banana, banana with cotton and linen; and long banana fibre has been used for the formation of a nonwoven. The fire test is carried out based on ISO 9773 standard and the effect of the additive has been studied, chemical treatment, type of fabric and number of layers. Through statistical analysis, it is concluded that the flame propagation speed has a decreasing relation with respect to the percentage, but it decreases the mechanical properties considerably. In addition, the number of layers and type of fabric influence the fire properties. Finally, it is concluded that composites reinforced with linen fabric have the best mechanical properties, but banana nonwoven with 60% additive has the best fire behaviour.

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“…A fiber is made of a bundle of fibrils, a fibril is composed of microfibrils and macrofibrils further divides into cellulose chain. Different reinforcing elements can be obtained by various processing technique of natural fibers yielding different mechanical properties . Nimanpure et al experimented on sisal fibril epoxy composites and sisal fibril/kenaf fiber hybrid polyester composites, reported improved mechanical properties with increase in sisal fibril content.…”

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Bio‐inspired low dielectric phenol formaldehyde laminates for electrical insulation applications

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In this research work, the effect of individual and hybridized reinforcement of sisal fibrils with randomly distributed short sisal fibers has been investigated. The sisal fibrils (SP) and sisal fibers (SF) were reinforced with phenol formaldehyde matrix using hot stage compression molding technique. Composite laminates were prepared keeping the total wt% of the fibrils/fibers to be 40. The mechanical strength of SP reinforced phenol formaldehyde laminates was found to be superior as compared to sisal fiber and sisal fibril/fiber hybrid reinforced laminates. The 40 wt% sisal fibril reinforced composite laminates (SP40PF60) showed 73% and 25% increase in tensile strength, 78% and 23% increase in flexural strength, and 174% and 44% increase in impact strength as compared to 40 wt% sisal fiber reinforced laminates (SF40PF60) and 40 wt% hybrid reinforced (having equal proportion of fibrils and fibers) laminates (SF20SP20PF60). The dielectric properties of SP40PF60 increased by 14% and 9% as compared to SF40PF60 and SF20SP20PF60 laminates. Thermogravimetric analysis analysis also showed higher thermal stability for sisal fibril phenol formaldehyde laminates than pure fiber and fibril/fiber hybrid laminates. Scanning electron microscopy was carried out to understand the nature of fibril/ fiber/matrix interface. These laminates have been specially designed for press boards used in transformer assembly as environment friendly high mechanical strength and electrical insulating material. Additionally, these laminates can be useful for various fields such as electrical and aerospace industry. K E Y W O R D Selectrical properties, mechanical properties, natural hybrid composites, sisal fiber, sisal fibril, thermogravimetric analysis

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Experimental Analysis and Simulation of Novel Technical Textile Reinforced Composite of Banana Fibre

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

Thermal and Mechanical Characterization of Banana Fiber Reinforced Composites for Its Application in Injection Molding

Thermal and Mechanical Characterization of Banana Fiber Reinforced Composites for Its Application in Injection Molding

Study and fire test of banana fibre reinforced composites with flame retardance properties

Bio‐inspired low dielectric phenol formaldehyde laminates for electrical insulation applications

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