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Chapter
Tensile, Flexural and Impact Strength of Acacia Wood Bio-composites
This chapter explores the tensile, flexural and impact strength of acacia wood biocomposites. The tensile strength of U-AW-PLA and M-AW-PLA bio-composites at different fiber loadings show that 15wt% fiber load...
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Dielectric Properties of Acacia Wood Bio-composites
In this chapter, pure PLA, PHA, PLA/PHA (1:1 ratio of PLA/PHA), and NCHB-PLA/PHA (1 wt% of NCHB; 1:1 ratio of PLA/PHA) with addition of different fiber loadings (i.e. 5 wt%, 10 wt%, 15 wt% and 20 wt%) are fabr...
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Study of Surface Behavior of Acacia Wood Bio-composites by Morphological Analysis
This chapter describe the surface performance and morphological analysis of acacia wood bio-composites. The SEM images of U-AW-PLA and U-AW-PLA showed a big void between the fiber and polymer. It could be obse...
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Chapter
Effect of Nano-enhancement on Acacia Wood Bio-composites
This chapter explain about nano-enhancement on acacia wood bio-composites. The tensile, flexural and impact tests were describe in this study. The optimum tensile strength was achieved at 10 wt% weight percent...
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Acacia Wood and Its Surface Treatment for High Strength Bio-composites
Till date, the core issue amongst many ecological problems that we face has been about nature and its various pollutions. Wood and natural fiber were known to be the very first materials used to combat noise p...
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Chapter
Infrared Spectral Functional Group and Thermal Properties of Acacia Wood Bio-composites
This chapter discover spectral functional group and thermal properties of acacia wood bio-composites. A small peak at 2897.08 cm−1 for U-AW fiber and 2900.94 cm−1 for M-AW fiber was attributed to the C-H stretchi...
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Environmental Impact Analysis of Wood and Natural Fiber Bio-Composites
In this chapter, a brief review on the practicability of using fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) in construction applications, particularly in the reinforced concrete structures were reported. The environmental a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Appraising the Corporate Sustainability Reports – Text Mining and Multi-Discriminatory Analysis
The voluntary disclosure of the sustainability reports by the companies attracts wider stakeholder groups. Diversity in these reports poses challenge to the users of information and regulators. This study appr...
