Manufacturing and mechanical characterisation of unidirectional fique fibres reinforced polypropylene composites
Manufacturing and mechanical characterisation of unidirectional fique fibres reinforced polypropylene composites
New sustainable composites have gained considerable attention in recent years and implementing natural fibres as reinforcement in composites is growing faster in engineering applications. This work presents the development, processing, and characterisation of a new composite material by combining textile polypropylene (PP) and long Fique fibres (a South American Andes native fibre). The samples are made out using coated Fique fibres and compared with samples of only PP. The consolidation is carried out using hot pressing at 185°C and a pressure of 10MPa. Tensile, bending, Charpy and DSC tests are conducted to evaluate the thermo-mechanical properties of the new material. The PP-Fique composite with coated fique fibres shows a remarkable increment in the mechanical properties in comparison with PP. Implementing Fique fibres as reinforcement in PP will reduce the amount of plastic required keeping mechanical performance.
composites, fique fibres, hot pressing, textile polypropylene, thermo-mechanical properties
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Composite Construction Laboratory; Laboratory for Processing of Advanced Composites
Idarraga, Guillermo
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Vargas, Johnattan
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Jalalvand, Meisam
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Meza, Juan
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Yang, Liu
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Vassilopoulos, Anastasios P.
12 December 2022
Idarraga, Guillermo
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Vargas, Johnattan
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Jalalvand, Meisam
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Meza, Juan
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Yang, Liu
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Vassilopoulos, Anastasios P.
Idarraga, Guillermo, Vargas, Johnattan, Jalalvand, Meisam, Meza, Juan and Yang, Liu
(2022)
Manufacturing and mechanical characterisation of unidirectional fique fibres reinforced polypropylene composites.
Vassilopoulos, Anastasios P. and Michaud, Veronique
(eds.)
In Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials - Composites Meet Sustainability (Vol 1-6): Materials.
vol. 1,
Composite Construction Laboratory; Laboratory for Processing of Advanced Composites.
.
(doi:10.5075/epfl-298799_978-2-9701614-0-0).
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Abstract
New sustainable composites have gained considerable attention in recent years and implementing natural fibres as reinforcement in composites is growing faster in engineering applications. This work presents the development, processing, and characterisation of a new composite material by combining textile polypropylene (PP) and long Fique fibres (a South American Andes native fibre). The samples are made out using coated Fique fibres and compared with samples of only PP. The consolidation is carried out using hot pressing at 185°C and a pressure of 10MPa. Tensile, bending, Charpy and DSC tests are conducted to evaluate the thermo-mechanical properties of the new material. The PP-Fique composite with coated fique fibres shows a remarkable increment in the mechanical properties in comparison with PP. Implementing Fique fibres as reinforcement in PP will reduce the amount of plastic required keeping mechanical performance.
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Published date: 12 December 2022
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The authors acknowledge the financial support provided by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Newton Fund: Industry-Academia Partnership Programme, IAPP18-19/29 and to the company Compañia de Empaques for providing the material using in this work. Author G. Idarraga would like to thank Colciencias of the Colombian government for the Doctoral grant, Colciencias, call 647 and The National University of Colombia.
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20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability, ECCM 2022, , Lausanne, Switzerland, 2022-06-26 - 2022-06-30
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composites, fique fibres, hot pressing, textile polypropylene, thermo-mechanical properties
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Guillermo Idarraga
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Johnattan Vargas
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Juan Meza
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Liu Yang
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Anastasios P. Vassilopoulos
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Veronique Michaud
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