Wood fiber composites

Yelle, D., Goodell, B., Gardner, D.J., Amirbahman, A., Winistorfer, P. and Shaler, S. (2004). Bonding of wood fiber composites using a synthetic chelator-lignin activation system. Forest Products Journal, 54(4), 73-78. 

Dallas, Texas, 6th-10th May, 2001, paper 460 DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTRUSION SYSTEM FOR FINE-CELLED FOAMING OF WOOD-FIBER COMPOSITES USING A PHYSICAL BLOWING AGENT... 

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF IMPACT DURABILITY ON EXTRUDED PLASTIC-WOOD FIBER COMPOSITE LINEALS... 

Orlando, Fl 7th-l 1th May, 2000, paper 660 EFFECTS OF IMPACT MODIFIERS ON THE PROPERTIES OF RIGID PVC/WOOD-FIBER COMPOSITES... 

In a similar manner, as it was discussed in the preceding section, we can ask— how stiff a WPC deck board can possibly be, if not filled with mineral fillers We know that wood is very stiff, at least in applications WPCs are intended for. As it is shown in Chapter 7, flexural modulus of wood is about 1,500,000 psi. Polymers are much more flexible, and flexural modulus for HDPE is at best at 150,000 psi (Chapter 2). Again, in a very simplified case, for 50% HDPE - 50% wood fiber composites, in which both principal ingredients are ideally mixed and wood fiber is oriented along the flow, that is, longitudinally, the flexural modulus would be equal to a symmetrical superposition of the flexular moduli of the matrix and the fiber, which is about 825,000 psi. 

Public company only 5% of revenues is by WPC 2005 sales data are taken from (Natural Wood Fiber Composites, v. 5, No. 3, 2006, p. 2)... 

Canadian Pat. No. 2,178,036 (December 1996). K.V. Seethamraju, N.J. Beaverson, K.E. Heikkila, and M.J. Deaner. Advanced compatible polymer wood fiber composite. 

V. Hristov and S. Vasileva. Dynamic mechanical and thermal properties of modified poly(propylene) wood fiber composites. Macromol. Mater. Eng., 2003, 288(10), 798-806. 

Zinc borate is the most popular additive to wood-fiber composite materials, primarily because of its relatively low cost. A typical cost of zinc borate is around... 

G. Guo, Y.H. Lee, Y.S. Kim, C.B. Park, and M. Sain, Flame retarding effects of nanoclay on wood-fiber composites. In The Global Outlook for Natural Fiber Wood Composites 2004, Intertech, Portland, ME, New Orleans, LA, December 8-10, 2004. 

M. Botros, Intertech Conference, The Global Outlook for Natural and Wood Fiber Composites, New Orleans, LA, December 3-5, 2003. 

Extrudable profile from PVC-wood fiber composite. [Data from Seethamraju, K. V. Heikkila, K. E. Deaner, M. J., US Patent 6,210,792, Apr. 3, 2001.]... 

Coutinho, F.M.B. and Costa, T.H.S. (1999) Performance of polypropylene-wood fiber composites. Polymer Testing, 18, 581-587. 

Residential decking is a large component of plastic lumber sales. Major manufacturers using recycled plastics include Trex and Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies (AERT) with plastic/wood fiber composites, and U.S. Plastic Lumber Corp. with both structurally foamed HDPE and plastic/wood composites. ... 

Raj RG, Kokta BV, Maldas D, Daneault C (1989) Use of wood fibers in thermoplastics VII. The effect of coupling agents in polyethylene-wood fiber composites. J Appl Polym Sci 37 1089... 

Figure 15.9 Scanning electron micrographs of HDPE/wood fiber composite im-weathered (top left), 400 hours UV weathered (top right), 2000 horn s UV weathered (bottom left), and 2 years natimal weathered (bottom right) [62].

R. Selden, B. Nystrom, and R. Langstrom, UV aging of poly(propylene)/wood-fiber composites. Polym. Compos. 25, 543-553 (2004). 

S. Godavarti, Thermoplastic wood fiber composites, in Natural Fibers, biopolymers, and Biocomposites, A.M. Mohanty, M. Misra, and L.T. Drzal, (Eds.), pp. 347-389, CRC Press, Boca Raton (2005). 

Panshin, A.J. et al. (1962) Wood Flour, Chapter 13, in Forest Products Their Sources, Production, and Utilization. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 265-271. Gordon, J.E. (1988) The Near Science of Strong Materials (or why you don t fM throu the floor), 2nd edn, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, p. 179. Morton, J., Quarmley, J., and Rossi, L (2003) Current and emerging applications for natural and wood fiber composites. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Woodfiber-Plastic Composites, Madison, WI, Forest Products Society, pp. 3-6. 

Gou, G., Park, C.B., Lee, Y.H., Kim, Y.S., and Sain, M. (2007) Flame retarding effects of nanoday on wood-fiber composites, in Flame Retardant Polymer Nanocomposites (eds A.B. Morgan and C.A. Wilkie), John Wiley Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. 

Wood-fiber Composite is Now Commercial, Modem Plastics, May 1997, p. 16. 

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