Natural fibers have piqued the interest of researchers, academics, and manufacturers due to their increased environmental sustainability and biocomparability. As a result, natural fiber-reinforced composites have a significant potential to replace synthetic materials in structural applications. The goal of this research is to create green composites out of organically sourced flax and ramie fibers and a bio-epoxy matrix utilizing a compression mold process. The composites have been fabricated by varying the weight of flax and ramie fibers in ratio of 10% and overall percentages of reinforcement kept constant to 30%. The physical properties such as density and hardness have been measured and analyzed that the inclusion of fibers improved the physical behavior of composites. The mechanical characterizations like tensile and flexural properties of fabricated green composites have been analyzed at different strain rate (1, 3, and 5 mm/min). The results observed that inclusion of flax fiber increased the flexibility and stiffness while ramie fiber has sustained higher strength and rigidity during higher load at variable strain rate. The failure of composites has been analyzed with morphological analysis. Finally, it may be inferred that the produced green composites possess better specific strength and stiffness, allowing them to withstand larger loads in structural applications.

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Effects of Fiber Loading on Physical and Mechanical Properties of Flax-Ramie-Reinforced Polymeric Biocomposites for Structural Applications

  • Santosh Kumar,
  • Vijay Kumar Mahakur,
  • Sumit Bhowmik

摘要

Natural fibers have piqued the interest of researchers, academics, and manufacturers due to their increased environmental sustainability and biocomparability. As a result, natural fiber-reinforced composites have a significant potential to replace synthetic materials in structural applications. The goal of this research is to create green composites out of organically sourced flax and ramie fibers and a bio-epoxy matrix utilizing a compression mold process. The composites have been fabricated by varying the weight of flax and ramie fibers in ratio of 10% and overall percentages of reinforcement kept constant to 30%. The physical properties such as density and hardness have been measured and analyzed that the inclusion of fibers improved the physical behavior of composites. The mechanical characterizations like tensile and flexural properties of fabricated green composites have been analyzed at different strain rate (1, 3, and 5 mm/min). The results observed that inclusion of flax fiber increased the flexibility and stiffness while ramie fiber has sustained higher strength and rigidity during higher load at variable strain rate. The failure of composites has been analyzed with morphological analysis. Finally, it may be inferred that the produced green composites possess better specific strength and stiffness, allowing them to withstand larger loads in structural applications.