INVESTIGATING THE INTERFACIAL COMPATIBILITY AND ADHESION OF COIR FIBRE COMPOSITES

摘要

The interest of using natural fibres in composite materials has greatly increased over the past decades thanks to their good mechanical properties in combination with environment-friendly characteristics. Among natural fibres, coir fibres are not very strong and stiff, but have high strain to failure which may increase toughness of some brittle matrices when they are used in composites. In order to achieve a good performance of composite materials, it is important to understand the quality of the interfacial adhesion between fibres and matrices.