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Haithem Boumediri1, Abderrezak Bezazi1, Gilberto Garcia Del Pino2
1Laboratoire de Mécanique Appliquée des Nouveaux Matériaux (LMANM), Université 8 Mai 1945, Guelma, Algeria.
Abstract:
Date palm rachis fibers are rich in cellulose, relatively inexpensive, and readily available in Algeria. The aim of this study is to investigate the morphology, structure, mechanical and physicochemical characteristics of both vascular bundles and fiber strands extracted from date palm rachis. The difficulties encountered are associated to the extraction of the fibers without damaging them. The study focuses on the morphological and surface roughness analysis using optical and scanning electron microscopies (SEM), and a non-contact 3D profiler. The chemical, physical and thermal properties have been studied using Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The mechanical properties were accessed by tensile tests and they were analyzed using two-parameter Weibull distribution.
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