Clay, Natural Fibers and Thermoset Resin Based Hybrid Composites: Preparation, Characterization and Mechanical Propertie
Combining two or more kinds of reinforcement into the same matrix in order to enhance the mechanical properties of natural fiber composite is one of the attractive ways employed in this sense. Natural hybridization has also the target of promoting the nat
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Abstract Combining two or more kinds of reinforcement into the same matrix in order to enhance the mechanical properties of natural fiber composite is one of the attractive ways employed in this sense. Natural hybridization has also the target of promoting the natural resources, particularly local resources not exploited industrially. This chapter presents a study of the mechanical behavior of hybrid composite based on natural components, the first and third parts contain our own results on the mechanical behavior of the hybrid matrix epoxy/clay and the mechanical behavior of double hybrid composites using a hybrid matrix (epoxy/clay) and hybrid reinforcement jute/coir and jute/doum. About the second part, it focuses an overview of works of literature dealing hybrid composites based on natural fiber/natural fiber and natural fiber/synthetic fiber. Other than the hybridization of the reinforcement, it may also involve the hybridization of architecture and orientation of the reinforcement, which is also the subject of this chapter in its third part.
Keywords Clay Natural fibres Mechanical properties
Thermoset resin
Hybrid composites
1 Introduction The composite materials based on thermosetting matrix are increasingly used in a variety of industrial fields such as aerospace, automotive and civil applications. Considering the environmental aspects, composite materials are currently at the core of sustainable development thanks to the use of natural constituents that either in terms of reinforcements, fillers or even the matrix. Many researchers were focused on development of composites with natural matrix (John and Thomas 2008; Martins et al. 2009; Behera et al. 2012). Consequently, the barrier resides H. Abdellaoui R. Bouhfid A.e.K. Qaiss (&) MAScIR Foundation, Laboratory of Polymer Processing, Rabat Center Design, Rue Mohamed Jazouli Madinat al Irfane, 10100 Rabat, Morocco e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 M. Jawaid et al. (eds.), Nanoclay Reinforced Polymer Composites, Engineering Materials, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1953-1_10
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well in the marketing of these green composites because of the costly price of the biodegradable matrix, which the large part of these resins costs more than the usual thermoset resins (John and Thomas 2008). To remedy, the suggestion to add natural fillers in the matrix is sufficiently ambitious. Generally, the use of fillers improves mechanical, electric or thermal properties, and also reduces the price of onerous matrices. Clay with all its varieties (Illite, montmorillonite, kaolinite…) is one of the most abundant natural fillers and widely used in commercial applications (Cyras et al. 2008; Jeong et al. 2011). The study of the mechanical behavior of the hybrid matrix (thermoset matrix/clay) is increasingly considered by many researchers (Jeong et al. 2011; Arrakhiz et al. 2013; Nekhlaoui et al. 2015). Concerning the composites reinforced with natural fibres, they earned a crucial interest in recent decades and sti
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