Natural fibre composites (NFC) are emerging as eco-friendly alternatives in industries like automotive, construction, and marine. They offer benefits such as low cost, biodegradability, and weight reduction, but challenges like moisture absorption and cost variability persist. NFCs are gaining traction in non-structural and semi-structural applications.
Composites are heterogeneous in nature, created by the assembly of two or more components with fillers or reinforcing fibres and a compactable matrix. The matrix may be metallic, ceramic or polymeric in origin. It gives the composites their shape, surface appearance, environmental tolerance and overall durability, while the fibrous reinforcement.
Braiding, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional, is popular in the manufacture of industrial ropes, fabrics and structures for composite application, says Pradeep Kulshrestha
Medical instruments for hyperthermia can be more patient-friendly and functional. With a focus on different types of applicators and antennas, conventional hyperthermia devices are reviewed by Manoshika Ramasamy, College of Human Ecology, Kansas State University, Manhattan and Minyoung Suh, Ph.D., College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, Raleigh...
Water hyacinth is a free-floating perennial plant that can grow to a height of 3 feet. It has striking light blue to violet flowers located on a terminal spike. Water hyacinth is a very aggressive invader and can form thick mats. If these mats cover the entire surface of the pond they can cause oxygen depletions and fish kills. Water hyacinths have to be controlled so they do not...
Introduction With the rapid technological development and progress, human beings have accepted the challenge of working in the increasingly hostile and adverse environment. Despite the growth of technology, work places still exist where we have to work in hot or/and humid conditions. Examples of such work areas include aerospace, firefighting, chemical warfare conditions, working in...
Shape memory polymers come under the category of very smart materials. Very smart materials are those materials that can respond to change in environmental condition and manipulate themselves as per the surroundings. Shape Memory Polymers (SMPs) are stimuli-responsive polymers. They can change their shape to a fixed shape under specific set of conditions like temperature and stress and...
Glass fibre is a special type of synthetic fibre. It is also known as fibre glass that is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibres of glass. It is very strong fibre. The versatility of glass as a fibre makes it unique industrial textile material. Glass fibre in fabric form offers an excellent combination of properties from high strength
Shape memory is the ability of a material to remember its original shape, the material deformed into a temporary shape and returns to its original shape by external stimuli. The first materials known to have these properties were shape memory metal alloys (SMAs) which have been developed in 1960s.<br><br>Shape Memory Polymers (SMPs) are one type of shape memory materials defined as...
Textile fibres, paper & plastics in raw state possess aesthetically undesirable brownish cast. Reason of it in natural fibres is presence of natural dyes & pigments & in manmade fibers it is attributable to thermal decomposition.
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