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Experimental Analysis and Simulation of Novel Technical Textile Reinforced Composite of Banana Fibre

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Mechanical Engineering Department, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Edificio de ingenierías, Campus de Tafira Baja, 35017 Las Palmas, Spain
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Leitat Technological Centre, C de la Innovació, 2.08225 Terrassa, Spain
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Processes Engineering Department, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Edificio de ingenierías, Campus de Tafira Baja, 35017 Las Palmas, Spain
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Materials 2019, 12(7), 1134; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12071134
Received: 6 March 2019 / Revised: 1 April 2019 / Accepted: 4 April 2019 / Published: 7 April 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Natural Fibers and Polymers)
The use of natural fibres allows reducing environmental impact, due to their natural renewable origin and the lower energy needed for their production and processing. This work presents the mechanical characterization of a newly developed technical textile, with banana fibre treated by enzymes, comparing experimental results with numerical simulation based on the definition of the unit cell at micromechanical level. The experimental test shows that the composite with the fabric of banana fibre presents worse mechanical behaviour than the one with commercial flax fibre. The presence of wool, necessary for producing the yarn, reduces the mechanical properties of the banana textile. The numerical simulation had an acceptable error compared with the experimental results, with a global average error of 9%, showing that the predictive modelling based on the multiscale method is suitable for the design process of this kind of composite. View Full-Text
Keywords: natural fibre composite; banana fibre; computational modelling; mechanical testing; compression moulding natural fibre composite; banana fibre; computational modelling; mechanical testing; compression moulding
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Monzón, M.D.; Paz, R.; Verdaguer, M.; Suárez, L.; Badalló, P.; Ortega, Z.; Diaz, N. Experimental Analysis and Simulation of Novel Technical Textile Reinforced Composite of Banana Fibre. Materials 2019, 12, 1134. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12071134

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Monzón MD, Paz R, Verdaguer M, Suárez L, Badalló P, Ortega Z, Diaz N. Experimental Analysis and Simulation of Novel Technical Textile Reinforced Composite of Banana Fibre. Materials. 2019; 12(7):1134. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12071134

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Monzón, Mario D., Rubén Paz, Martí Verdaguer, Luis Suárez, Pere Badalló, Zaida Ortega, and Noelia Diaz. 2019. "Experimental Analysis and Simulation of Novel Technical Textile Reinforced Composite of Banana Fibre" Materials 12, no. 7: 1134. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12071134

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