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2020 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Thermo-Mechanical Analysis of Unidirectional PALF Composites Using Micromechanical Approach
verfasst von : Anurag Jasti, Sandhyarani Biswas
Erschienen in: Advances in Applied Mechanical Engineering
Verlag: Springer Singapore
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Abstract
In the past few years, natural fibers became one of the most widely used materials in place of synthetic fibers to develop composites as it attains some inherent characteristics like renewable resource and biodegradability. Pineapple leaf fiber (PALF) is one of the natural fibers which can be used as reinforcement to develop composites. The objective of the present work is to carry out the analytical study of mechanical and thermal properties of fiber-reinforced polymer composites. PALF in unidirectional form is used as reinforcement with varying fiber volume fraction \((\upsilon_{\text{f}} )\) ranging from 10 to 70% and epoxy as the matrix material to carry out the work. Representative elementary volume (REV)-based micromechanical analysis is used to determine elastic and thermal properties of composites. The results obtained from this analysis are compared with that of the existing analytical methods. The results show good agreement between the results of finite element analysis (FEA) and analytical methods.