| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2021 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Characterization of Minerals, Metals and Materials 2021
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| Presentation Title |
Thermal Analysis of Sedge Fibers and Epoxy Matrix Composites Reinforced with Sedge Fibers |
| Author(s) |
Lucas Mendonça Neuba, Michelle Oliveira, Sergio Neves |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Lucas Mendonça Neuba |
| Abstract Scope |
A growing concern about the environmental reasons involving green gas motivated researchers efforts aiming to provide natural materials less harmful to the enviromennt and the human beings’ quality of life. For this reason the use of lignocellulosic fibers replaces sinthetic fibers composites, a diversity of them have already been investigated. However, these fibers presents certains drawbacks, specifically one of them is relative to their low thermal stability reflecting on a limitation to their composites. The present work has been dedicated to analyze a scientifically new ligocellulosic fiber for engineering aplications known as seven-islands-sedge in Brazil. Concerning to discover how it behaves in high temperatures the natural fiber was subjected to an thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), besides composites reinforced with 0, 10, 20 an 30% of volumetric fractions of this fiber were also analysed. The thermal stability found for sedge fibers was of 241°C. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Characterization, Composites, Polymers |