PLA-hemp bio-composites with different reinforcement content were manufactured by compression moulding process. Both flexural and impact properties were investigated and compared to the unreinforced polymer. In addition, also the creep behaviour adopting the Arrhenius theory was determined, in order to better understand the industrial application limits of PLA reinforced by natural fibres. For this purpose, DMA tests were carried out, in order to evaluate the activation energy and to apply the Time-Temperature Superposition model to the compliance curves obtained by short-time creep tests.
Dynamic-Mechanical Behaviour of Bio-composites / Durante, Massimo; Langella, Antonio; Formisano, Antonio; Boccarusso, Luca; Carrino, Luigi. - In: PROCEDIA ENGINEERING. - ISSN 1877-7058. - 167:(2016), pp. 231-236. (Intervento presentato al convegno International Symposium on Dynamic Response and Failure of Composite materials, DRAF 2016 tenutosi a Hotel Continental TermeIsland of Ischia nel 7 September 2016 through 9 September 2016) [10.1016/j.proeng.2016.11.692].
Dynamic-Mechanical Behaviour of Bio-composites
DURANTE, MASSIMO;LANGELLA, ANTONIO;FORMISANO, ANTONIO
;BOCCARUSSO, LUCA;CARRINO, LUIGI
2016
Abstract
PLA-hemp bio-composites with different reinforcement content were manufactured by compression moulding process. Both flexural and impact properties were investigated and compared to the unreinforced polymer. In addition, also the creep behaviour adopting the Arrhenius theory was determined, in order to better understand the industrial application limits of PLA reinforced by natural fibres. For this purpose, DMA tests were carried out, in order to evaluate the activation energy and to apply the Time-Temperature Superposition model to the compliance curves obtained by short-time creep tests.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
