Manufacturing and mechanical characterisation of unidirectional fique fibre reinforced polypropylene composites
Idarraga, Guillermo and Vargas, Johnattan and Jalalvand, Meisam and Meza, Juan and Yang, Liu (2022) Manufacturing and mechanical characterisation of unidirectional fique fibre reinforced polypropylene composites. In: The 20th European Conference on Composite Materials, 2022-06-26 - 2022-06-30.
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Abstract
New sustainable composites have gained considerable attention in recent years and implementing natural fibres as reinforcement in composites is growing faster in engineering applications. This work presents the development, processing, and characterisation of a new composite material by combining textile polypropylene (PP) and long Fique fibres (a South American Andes native fibre). The samples are made out using coated Fique fibres and compared with samples of only PP. The consolidation is carried out using hot pressing at 185°C and a pressure of 10MPa. Tensile, bending, Charpy and DSC tests are conducted to evaluate the thermo-mechanical properties of the new material. The PP-Fique composite with coated fique fibres shows a remarkable increment in the mechanical properties in comparison with PP. Implementing Fique fibres as reinforcement in PP will reduce the amount of plastic required keeping mechanical performance.
ORCID iDs
Idarraga, Guillermo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7832-9509, Vargas, Johnattan, Jalalvand, Meisam, Meza, Juan and Yang, Liu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8475-1757;-
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Item type: Conference or Workshop Item(Paper) ID code: 81727 Dates: DateEvent26 June 2022Published18 February 2022AcceptedSubjects: Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery Department: Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 04 Aug 2022 14:01 Last modified: 23 Oct 2024 00:47 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/81727