Biodegradable Composites: Materials, Manufacturing and Engineering

Description

With conventional materials contributing greatly to environmental waste, biodegradable and natural composites have grown in interest and display low environmental impact at low cost across a wide range of applications. This book provides an overview of different biodegradable and natural composites and focuses on efforts into increasing their mechanical performance to extend their capabilities and applications. A rapidly developing field Covers natural materials usage in place of current synthetically produced materials Preface Contents List of contributors Editors’ biographies Part I: Introduction and Material 1. An insight into plant-based biodegradable composites 2. Corn (maize) – its fibers, polymers, composites, and applications: A review Part II: Manufacturing and Properties 3. Production of biodegradable composites from agricultural waste: A review 4. Natural fiber-based biocomposites: Effect of orientation on mechanical properties 5. Mechanical properties of bamboo yarn: A biodegradable composite material for structural works 6. Aggrandized flexural properties of assorted natural biological materials 7. Hygrothermoelastic behaviour Natural fibers based composites: Mechanisms and formalism Part III: Machining and Application 8. Influence of drilling parameters on the thrust force and mechanical properties of biodegradable particleboard composite panels: A review 9. A numerical study of rotating functionally graded annular fin Index