Gnaba, I., Wang, P., Soulat, D. et al. (3 more authors) (2019) Investigation about the effect of manufacturing parameters on the mechanical behaviour of natural fibre nonwovens reinforced thermoplastic composites. Materials, 12 (16). ISSN 1996-1944
Abstract
To date, nonwoven fabrics made with natural fibres and thermoplastic commingled fibres have been extensively used in the composite industry for a wide variety of applications. This paper presents an innovative study about the effect of the manufacturing parameters on the mechanical behaviour of flax/PP nonwoven reinforced composites. The mechanical properties of nonwoven fabric reinforced composites are related directly to the ones of dry nonwoven reinforcements, which depend strongly on the nonwoven manufacturing parameters, such as the needle-punching and areal densities. Consequently, the influence of these manufacturing parameters will be analysed through the tensile and flexural properties. The results demonstrated that the more areal density the nonwoven fabric has, the more the mechanical behaviour can be tested for composites. By contrast, it has a complex influence on needle-punching density on the load-strain and bending behaviours at the composite scale.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | nonwoven; natural fibre composites (NFC); thermoplastic; mechanical behaviour |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Advanced Manufacturing Institute (Sheffield) > AMRC Composites Centre (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2019 13:06 |
Last Modified: | 05 Sep 2019 13:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/ma12162560 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:150365 |