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PT J
TI Comparison of the properties of scutched flax and flax tow for composite material reinforcement
BT 
AF MARTIN, Nicolas
   DAVIES, Peter
   BALEY, Christophe
AS 1:1,3;2:2;3:1;
FF 1:;2:PDG-REM-RDT-LCSM;3:;
C1 Univ Bretagne Sud, EA 4250, LIMATB, F-56100 Lorient, France.
   IFREMER, Ctr Bretagne, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Van Robaeys Freres, F-59122 Killem, France.
C2 UBS, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   VAN ROBAEYS FRERES, FRANCE
SI AUTRE
   BREST
SE AUTRE
   PDG-REM-RDT-LCSM
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-univ-france
IF 2.837
TC 29
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00203/31403/41240.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Flax fibers;Scutching;Flax by-products;Composite materials
AB The industrial production of flax fibers yields two fibrous products: scutched fibers are valuable for their length, fineness and cleanness, while tows are entangled, impure and are low-priced. There is a need for technical data to compare these two kinds of fibers beyond the difference of appearance, and to assess their potential as composite material reinforcements. In this work, we have compared the properties of scutched flax and flax tows from the same batch. The morphology was first assessed by measuring the length, cleanness and fineness of fiber bundles. The tensile properties of single fibers and of unidirectionally reinforced epoxy composites were then measured. The results show that the morphology of flax tows is different from but close to the morphology of scutched flax. Tow bundles were 15% shorter than scutched flax bundles and tow bundles were 25% thicker than scutched flax bundles. The tensile properties of single fibers were in the same range. Tensile properties of the unidirectional composites show a similar evolution of properties versus fiber volume fraction. The use of scutched flax allowed volume fractions of 0.7 to be achieved while tow volume fraction was limited to 0.6. Despite the visual and morphological difference between tows and scutched flax both can be good candidates for composite reinforcement in high performance applications.
PY 2014
PD NOV
SO Industrial Crops And Products
SN 0926-6690
PU Elsevier Science Bv
VL 61
UT 000343339200036
BP 284
EP 292
DI 10.1016/j.indcrop.2014.07.015
ID 31403
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