By Mohammad Jawaid, Mohammad Asim, Paridah Md. Tahir and Mohammed Nasir
Contents
Pintu Pandit, Ritu Pandey, Kunal Singha, Sanjay Shrivastava,
Vandana Gupta and Seiko Jose
Anatomical Structure of Pineapple Leaf Fiber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Kunal Singha, Pintu Pandit and Sanjay Shrivastava
Effect of Extraction on the Mechanical, Physical and Biological
Properties of Pineapple Leaf Fibres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
A. Rafiqah, K. Abdan, M. Nasir and M. Asim
Improving the Properties of Pineapple Leaf Fibres by Chemical
Treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
R. Siakeng, M. Jawaid, Paridah Md. Tahir, S. Siengchin and M. Asim
Chemical, Physical and Biological Treatments of Pineapple
Leaf Fibres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
F. N. M. Padzil, Z. M. A. Ainun, Naziratulasikin Abu Kassim, S. H. Lee,
C. H. Lee, Hidayah Ariffin and Edi Syams Zainudin
Physical, Morphological, Structural, Thermal and Mechanical
Properties of Pineapple Leaf Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
C. H. Lee, A. Khalina, S. H. Lee, F. N. M. Padzil and Z. M. A. Ainun
Improving Flame Retardancy of Pineapple Leaf Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
S. H. Lee, C. H. Lee, Z. M. A. Ainun, F. N. M. Padzil, Wei Chen Lum
and Zakiah Ahmad
Green Acoustic Absorber from Pineapple Leaf Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Azma Putra, Iwan Prasetiyo and Zulkefli Selamat
Physicochemical Properties of Nanocellulose Extracted
from Pineapple Leaf Fibres and Its Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Ismail Muhamad Fareez, Nazmul Haque, Der Juin Ooi, Ainil Hawa Jasni
and Fauziah Abd Aziz
Cellulose Nanostructures Extracted from Pineapple Fibres . . . . . . . . . . 185
Karen S. Prado, Asaph A. Jacinto and Márcia A. S. Spinacé
Tensile Behaviour of Centrally Holed Pineapple Fibre Reinforced
Vinyl Ester Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Nadendla Srinivasababu
Micromechanical Modelling and Evaluation of Pineapple Leaves
Fibre (PALF) Composites Through Representative Volume
Element Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Yashwant S. Munde, Ravindra B. Ingle, Avinash S. Shinde
and Siva Irulappasamy
Fabrication of Pineapple Leaf Fibers Reinforced Composites . . . . . . . . 265
I. Cesarino, M. B. Carnietto, G. R. F. Bronzato and A. L. Leao
Pineapple Leaf Fibres for Automotive Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Beyanagari Sudheer Reddy, M. Rajesh, Edwin Sudhakar, Ariful Rahaman,
Jayakrishna Kandasamy and M. T. H. Sultan
Pineapple Leaf Fibers: Potential Green Resources for Pulp
and Paper Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
A. Praveen Kumar
Performance of Surface Modified Pineapple Leaf Fiber
and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
G. Rajeshkumar, S. Ramakrishnan, T. Pugalenthi and P. Ravikumar
Preface
Natural fibres are under intensive study due to their ecofriendly nature, peculiar properties, and some other advantages such as availability, easy and safe handling, and biodegradability.
Natural fibres have admirable physical and mechanical properties, though it varies with the plant source, species, geography, and climatic conditions. Pineapple leaf fibre (PALF) is one of the abundantly available waste materials of South East Asia, India, and South America until now not explored full potential of it. From the socioeconomic prospective, PALF can be a new source of raw material to the industries and can be a potential replacement of synthetic fibre. This book will study the anatomical structure, source, and variety of PALF which will further elaborate physical, mechanical, and fibre/matrix interfacial bonding and composites.
This sustainable material penetrates in the market segment and has significant potential in automotive, marine, aerospace, construction and building, wind energy and consumer goods, etc. The book contains extensive examples and real-world products that will be suitable as per the need of markets.
This book covered versatile topics such as cultivation of anatomical structure of pineapple as future material for versatile applications, extraction process of pineapple leaf fibres, improvement of pineapple leaf fibres by various treatments, comparative study of natural fibres, design and fabrication of green biocomposites, conceptual design of biocomposites, green biocomposites for automotive components, structural purposes and aircraft application.
We are highly thankful to all authors who have contributed chapters and provided their valuable ideas and knowledge in this edited book. We attempt to gather all the scattered information of authors from diverse fields around the world (Malaysia, Brazil, and India) in the areas of green composites and biocomposites and finally complete this venture in a fruitful way. We greatly appreciate contributors’ commitment for their support to compile our ideas in reality.
We are highly thankful to Springer Singapore team for their generous cooperation at every stage of the book production.