Effect of flax sheet prepared by wet-laying technology on tensile properties of flax/polypropylene composites
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Ting Wang
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Haitang Liu
Abstract
This work focuses on the flax sheet which is prepared for wet-laying technique, then investigated the effect of the flax sheet preparation process on the tensile strength of the flax/polypropylene composites. Using hand-laying and hot-pressing methods to prepare composite materials. Then tested tensile strength of composites under different revolutions of fiber disintegration machine, flax content and flax length. The results shown that when the number of revolutions is 25,989 r, the flax content is 7.88 g, and the flax length is 4 mm, the highest tensile strength is 42.0376 MPa, which is 78.88 % stronger than that of pure polypropylene.
Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Award Identifier / Grant number: No.31700516
Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Award Identifier / Grant number: Unassigned
Funding source: Tianjin University
Award Identifier / Grant number: Unassigned
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Jingyi Wei, Xiushuang Chen, Wenhui Zhang, appreciate the assistance by Mr. Fangdong Zhang and Mrs. Jing Li of College of Light Industry Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Science and Technology for their technical support.
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Research ethics: Not applicable.
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Author contributions: Ting Wang: Writing-original draft. Xinyu Zhang: Supervision, Conceptualization. Yefan Wang: Conceptualization, Methodology. Zhihua Guo: Conceptualization. Qian Wang: Methodology. Sheng Liu: Conceptualization. Ze Miao: Supervision. Xiaoyuan Liao: Supervision. Haitang Liu: Writing-review & editing.
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Competing interests: There’s no financial/personal interest or belief that could affect our objectivity.
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Research funding: This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31700516).
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Data availability: The raw data can be obtained on request from the corresponding author.
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