# NON-WOVEN FLAX FIBRE REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE: STATIC AND LOW VELOCITY IMPACT BEHAVIOUR

> Title: NON-WOVEN FLAX FIBRE REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE: STATIC AND LOW VELOCITY IMPACT BEHAVIOUR Page Range: p.287-298 Author(s): Thuy Quynh Truong Hoang; Fabienne Touchard File size: 947K Download the pdf (subscribers only) Buy the pdf (non-subscribers) Journal: Polymers and Polymer Composites Issue Year: ppc...

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Published: 2013-05-01T00:00:00+00:00
Categories: Polymers and Polymer Composites

**Title: NON-WOVEN FLAX FIBRE REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE: STATIC AND LOW VELOCITY IMPACT BEHAVIOUR**
 Page Range: p.287-298
 Author(s): Thuy Quynh Truong Hoang; Fabienne Touchard
 File size: 947K
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 Journal: Polymers and Polymer Composites
 Issue Year: ppc
 Volume: 21
 Issue No: No.5

**Abstract**
 Non-woven flax fibre reinforced new and recycled polypropylene were manufacturing by an industrial process of carding, batt, needle-punching and thermo-pressing. Polypropylene fibres were mixed with flax fibres in the carding process forming a thick multi-layered mat which was used for thermo-compression process. Effects of multi-layered non-woven manufacturing on mechanical properties were analysed in different composites with three fibre areal weights. The results highlight the anisotropic behaviour of the obtained composites and a constant ratio of absorption energy to impact energy. In addition, cyclic tests and acoustic emission method coupled with image correlation measurement were specially employed in order to detect the damage development process in the composites and to qualify the deformation process in tensile test. 17 Refs.

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