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Coir Fiber and its Composites
Processing, Properties and Applications
- 1st Edition - August 26, 2022
- Editor: Mohammad Jawaid
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 1 8 6 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 1 8 7 - 3
Coir Fiber and its Composites: Processing, Properties and Applications presents unified knowledge on eco-friendly coir fiber composites, covering their characterization, design, m… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCoir Fiber and its Composites: Processing, Properties and Applications presents unified knowledge on eco-friendly coir fiber composites, covering their characterization, design, manufacture and applications. The properties of coir fiber and its extraction and processing are explored in-depth, thus helping researchers, scientists and those working in various industries understand the need of coir fiber composites in the development of green, biodegradable and sustainable components that have potential in real-world applications. The book elaborates on the basic characterization of coir fibers and its composite properties such, including its physical, mechanical, morphological, thermal, structural and chemical properties.
Users will find sound knowledge on coir fiber and its composites, including modern design and manufacture engineering with numerous example illustrations, methods and results that will be valuable for graduate students, researchers and industrialists working in the development of plant-based composite materials.
- Covers all aspects of coir fibers and their composites, such as cultivation, extraction, processing, modification, composite design, properties and applications
- Provides an overview of all types of natural fibers and their composites to give an insight on which fiber is suitable for a specific application
- Presents a comparison in terms of properties, costs, production processes and availability of different fibers
- Covers lifecycle assessment, case studies on industrial product development, manufacturing and design as well as numerical problems and solutions
Academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers working in the natural fiber composites industry, chemists developing nanocellulose, polymer science and engineering, forestry and agriculture
1. Coir Fibre: Geographic distribution, and cultivation
2. Extraction of Coir Fibres by Different Methods
3. Anatomical Structure of Coir Fibres
4. Effect of extraction on the mechanical, physical, and biological properties of Coir Fibre
5. Modification/Treatment of Coir fibres by various techniques-Alkali/Silane/Grafting etc. for fabrication of composites
6. Physical, Morphological, Structural, Thermal, morphological, and tensile Properties of Coir fibres
7. Coir Fiber Architectures for Composites
8. Matrix materials for Coir Fibre Composites
9. Manufacturing and Design of Coir Fibre Composites
10. Coir fibre Composite: Mechanical and Morphological properties
11. Design and Modelling of Coir Fibre Composites
12. Thermal properties of Coir Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites
13. Accelerated Weathering and Biodegradable properties of Coir based composites
14. Cellulose nanostructures extracted from Coir fibres
15. Physicochemical and Morphological Properties of Microcrystalline cellulose and Nanocellulose Extracted from Coir Fibres and its composites
16. Coir fibre-based Nanocomposites
17. Coir fibre-based composites for Various Applications-Automotive, Construction, Wind Turbine blade, and Aerospace Applications
18. life-cycle assessment of coir fibres and their composites
2. Extraction of Coir Fibres by Different Methods
3. Anatomical Structure of Coir Fibres
4. Effect of extraction on the mechanical, physical, and biological properties of Coir Fibre
5. Modification/Treatment of Coir fibres by various techniques-Alkali/Silane/Grafting etc. for fabrication of composites
6. Physical, Morphological, Structural, Thermal, morphological, and tensile Properties of Coir fibres
7. Coir Fiber Architectures for Composites
8. Matrix materials for Coir Fibre Composites
9. Manufacturing and Design of Coir Fibre Composites
10. Coir fibre Composite: Mechanical and Morphological properties
11. Design and Modelling of Coir Fibre Composites
12. Thermal properties of Coir Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites
13. Accelerated Weathering and Biodegradable properties of Coir based composites
14. Cellulose nanostructures extracted from Coir fibres
15. Physicochemical and Morphological Properties of Microcrystalline cellulose and Nanocellulose Extracted from Coir Fibres and its composites
16. Coir fibre-based Nanocomposites
17. Coir fibre-based composites for Various Applications-Automotive, Construction, Wind Turbine blade, and Aerospace Applications
18. life-cycle assessment of coir fibres and their composites
- No. of pages: 394
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 26, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443151866
- eBook ISBN: 9780443151873
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Mohammad Jawaid
Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is a professor at Biocomposite Technology Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia, and also has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, since June 2013. He has more than 16 years of experience in teaching, research, and industries. His area of research interests includes hybrid composites, lignocellulosic reinforced/filled polymer composites, advance materials: graphene/nanoclay/fire retardant, modification and treatment of lignocellulosic fibers and solid wood, biopolymers and biopolymers for packaging applications, nanocomposites and nanocellulose fibers, and polymer blends.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia