Thermochemical and statistical mechanical properties of natural sisal fibres

Effect of fiber volume fraction in the tensile properties of renewable Diss fiber /polyester composite

“…Table 2 illustrates the average value of the tensile properties of the Diss fibers obtained by the two parameters Wiebull distribution. The tensile modulus and strain at failure and stress at failure for this Diss fiber shown similar values when compared to sisal fiber presented in literature (Belaadi et al, 2014). Fig.…”

“…The experiments are carried out with a single column ET traction machine equipped with a 10 KN load cell, with a velocity equal to 15 mm/min in order to get a total time test of 20 ± 3 s. During the axial loading, the short fiber appears the high scatter behavior. The behavior makes the analysis of results difficult (Belaadi et al, 2014). In order to avoid this difficulty our fiber tests have a length equal to 250 mm.…”

“…where P(σ) is the probability of survival of the parameter σ, m is a shape parameter or the Weibull modulus related to the dispersion of the data and σ0 is an average value of σ (Belaadi et al, 2014). The probability of failure value for each strength was defined as:…”

Characterization of Agave americana L. plant as potential source of fibres for composites obtaining

“…Extraction assays have led to the obtaining of a 5.9 ± 1.4% of fibre (on the basis of dry leaves). Other authors have found a fibre content around 4% for sisal leaves [32,33].…”

Toward high performance renewable agave reinforced biocomposites: Optimization of fiber performance and fiber-matrix adhesion analysis

“…For all these reasons, it is a shared opinion that in the current state, the agave fibers are yet underused [1] and the implementation of new biocomposites, especially for semi-structural and structural applications, is an objective strongly expected, but not yet reached. Several research works reported in literature, deal with the study of the agave fiber for the manufacturing of ecofriendly composite materials; in particular, some works focused on the fiber extraction process [1][2][3][4], whereas other works have addressed to the study of the mechanical strength and the relative main influence M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT parameters, focusing on the single fiber [5][6][7][8][9][10], as well as on the properties of the fiber-matrix interface [11][12][13][14][15] and on the mechanical or chemical treatments aimed to the improvement of the fibers properties and of the adhesion with the polymeric matrixes [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Few are instead, the works reported in literature that deal with the biocomposites [25][26][27][28] and their damage mechanisms, by considering the cases of two-components short [25,26] and long fiber [27,28] biocomposites [25,26], as well as the case of hybrid tri-components [29][30][31][32]…”