PROCESSING AND MANUFACTURING OF NATURAL FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS TO SPECIMENS FOR GENERATING SIMULATION DATA (NFC-SIMULATION)

摘要

Generating basic material data information for natural fiber composites (NFC) for simulation requires uniform process parameters. This study is primarily concerned with the technical implementation of the uniform processing of different natural fibers (NF) such as sisal, wheat straw, hemp pellets, cellulose fibers and man-made fibers in extrusion and injection molding process. We were able to prove the possibility of compounding very different types of natural fibers and plastics under the same conditions by using optimized process parameters and by using a specialized extruder screw configuration.