COMPARISON BETWEEN GLASS AND FLAX NON-CRIMP STITCHED FABRICS

Laurent Bizet (1) , Sébastien Gueret (1) , Christopher Ré (1) , Pierre Ouagne (2)

1 LOMC - Laboratoire Ondes et Milieux Complexes
2 F2ME

Flax NCF studied is more difficult to impregnate than glass NCF in a longitudinal way. Transverse impregnation is similar in glass and flax fabrics. Infusion processes should then be preferred to RTM injection for this flax NCF. Flax composites show lower tensile properties than glass ones. However flax composite tensile properties are sufficient for various structural applications. In particular, flax-polyurethane composites are mechanically competitive with high agro-resourced content.

Mots clés: agro-resourced composites; tensile properties; non-crimp fabrics; permeability; flax fiber

Domaines: Matériaux

Laurent Bizet, Sébastien Gueret, Christopher Ré, Pierre Ouagne. COMPARISON BETWEEN GLASS AND FLAX NON-CRIMP STITCHED FABRICS. 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITE MATERIALS, Aug 2011, Jeju Island, South Korea. pp.August 2011. ⟨hal-00655548⟩