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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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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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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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Introduction of Various Types of Acacia Wood
Genus Acacia has a complex history in globally, there are categorize them as plants, shrubs, and large trees. This chapter covers various types of acacia species, and plantation of Acacia trees in regions such...