The vulnerability against heat and fire for natural fibers presents a great challenge for their
replacement of traditional fiber reinforcements in composite materials. Natural fiber/polymer …

Fiber reinforced polymeric composites (FRPCs) have been widely used in automotive,
aircraft, airspace, marine and civil construction. However, they are flammable, thus seriously …

Environmental emergency awareness has been gaining momentum in recent years in the
composite manufacturing industry, with a new generation of composite materials minimizing …

In recent past years, utilization of synthetic materials has become a matter of immense
concern due to increasing environmental awareness in terms of safety, sustainability and …

Nowadays, epoxy composites are elements of engineering materials and systems. Although
they are known as versatile materials, epoxy resins suffer from high flammability. In this …

To meet the growing demand for the use of environmentally and friendly materials in various
applications, many efforts have been done in order to provide lighweighting, biodegradable …

Various compositions of epoxy/hardener with flame retardant (FR) as additives were used to
produce natural fiber composite through the resin infusion technique. The effects of natural …

This paper summarizes the results obtained in the course of the development of a specific
group of biocomposites with high functionality of flame retardancy, which are …

As a kind of plant fiber, ramie fibers (RFs) are widely used in fiber reinforced resin matrix
composites, however, both of RFs and resin matrix are flammable. Enhancing the flame …

The current work investigated the effects of zinc borate (ZB), ammonium polyphosphate
(APP)/ZB and alumina trihydrate (ATH)/ZB hybrids as flame retardants on the flammability …