Ali Amiri, Nassibeh Hosseini, Chad A. Ulven*
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.3, No.3, pp. 224-233, 2015, DOI:10.7569/JRM.2015.634111
Abstract Natural fibers have great potential to be used as reinforcement in composite materials. Cellulose, being a critical
constituent of natural fibers, provides unquestionable advantages over synthetically produced fibers. Increasing
demand for use of bio-based composites in different engineering and structural applications requires proper test
methods and models for predicting their long-term behavior. In the present work, the time-temperature
superposition principle was successfully applied to characterize creep behavior of flax/vinyl ester composites.
The creep compliance vs time curves were determined and shifted along the logarithmic time axis to generate a
master compliance curve. The time-temperature superposition provided an accelerated method for… More >
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