Coir Fiber and its Composites: Processing, Properties and Applications presents unified knowledge on eco-friendly coir fiber composites, covering their characterization, design, manufacture and applications. The properties of coir fiber and its extraction and processing are explored in-depth, thus helping researchers, scientists and those working in various industries understand the need of coir fiber composites in the development of green, biodegradable and sustainable components that have potential in real-world applications. The book elaborates on the basic characterization of coir fibers and its composite properties such, including its physical, mechanical, morphological, thermal, structural and chemical properties.
Users will find sound knowledge on coir fiber and its composites, including modern design and manufacture engineering with numerous example illustrations, methods and results that will be valuable for graduate students, researchers and industrialists working in the development of plant-based composite materials.
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Table of Contents
1. Coir Fibre: Geographic distribution, and cultivation2. Extraction of Coir Fibres by Different Methods
3. Anatomical Structure of Coir Fibres
4. Effect of extraction on the mechanical, physical, and biological properties of Coir Fibre
5. Modification/Treatment of Coir fibres by various techniques-Alkali/Silane/Grafting etc. for fabrication of composites
6. Physical, Morphological, Structural, Thermal, morphological, and tensile Properties of Coir fibres
7. Coir Fiber Architectures for Composites
8. Matrix materials for Coir Fibre Composites
9. Manufacturing and Design of Coir Fibre Composites
10. Coir fibre Composite: Mechanical and Morphological properties
11. Design and Modelling of Coir Fibre Composites
12. Thermal properties of Coir Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites
13. Accelerated Weathering and Biodegradable properties of Coir based composites
14. Cellulose nanostructures extracted from Coir fibres
15. Physicochemical and Morphological Properties of Microcrystalline cellulose and Nanocellulose Extracted from Coir Fibres and its composites
16. Coir fibre-based Nanocomposites
17. Coir fibre-based composites for Various Applications-Automotive, Construction, Wind Turbine blade, and Aerospace Applications
18. life-cycle assessment of coir fibres and their composites
Authors
Mohammad Jawaid Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, College of Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently affiliated with the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at United Arab Emirates University. Previously he was a senior fellow (professor) in the Laboratory of Biocomposites Technology at the Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is an eminent scientist with more than twenty years of teaching, and research experience in composite materials. His research interests include hybrid reinforced/filled polymer composites, and advanced materials such as graphene/
nanoclay/fire retardant, lignocellulosic reinforced/filled polymer composites, and the modification and treatment of lignocellulosic fibres and solid wood, and nanocomposites and nanocellulose fibres.
