A New Developed Environmentally Friendly High Performance Composite

With increasing concerns about environmental
protection, natural renewable materials become more
and more popular in many applications including a
variety of building products, automotive,
infrastructure, and other industries. Natural fiber
polymer composites have drawn a great deal of
interest in recent years because these materials
posses high potential to achieve great property
improvement. The resulting composite has technical
advantages during production and performs much better
compared to those made with synthetic fibers.
In this book, the design fundamentals of
manufacturing high performance hemp/acrylic
composites were explored. The effects of various
fiber treatments on physical and mechanical
properties of the hemp/acrylic composite were
investigated. A detailed study of some thermo-
physical properties, including density, heat
capacity, and thermal conductivity of the fiber,
resin, and composite were described. A three-
dimensional finite element model was developed to
simulate the heat transfer and cure behavior of a
complex geometry of the composite during
manufacturing and compared with
experimental results.

Autorentext
TAYEBEH BEHZAD graduated with BSc (1998) in Chemical Engineeringat Isfahan University of Technology. She started her MSc in2002 and received her PhD degree from Department of ChemicalEngineering at the University of Toronto in 2007. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Biocomposites and BiomaterialsProcessing, University of Toronto.

Klappentext
With increasing concerns about environmental protection, natural renewable materials become more and more popular in many applications including a variety of building products, automotive, infrastructure, and other industries. Natural fiber polymer composites have drawn a great deal of interest in recent years because these materials posses high potential to achieve great property improvement. The resulting composite has technical advantages during production and performs much bettercompared to those made with synthetic fibers. In this book, the design fundamentals of manufacturing high performance hemp/acrylic composites were explored. The effects of various fiber treatments on physical and mechanical properties of the hemp/acrylic composite were investigated. A detailed study of some thermo-physical properties, including density, heat capacity, and thermal conductivity of the fiber, resin, and composite were described. A three- dimensional finite element model was developed to simulate the heat transfer and cure behavior of a complex geometry of the composite duringmanufacturing and compared with experimental results.