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.