Characteristic and Performance of Elementary Hemp Fibre.pdfVIP

Materials Sciences and Applications, 2010, 1, 336-342 doi:10.4236/msa.2010.16049 Published Online December 2010 (/journal/msa) Characteristic and Performance of Elementary Hemp Fibre Dasong Dai, Mizi Fan Civil Engineering Department, School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, London, UK. E-mail: mizi.fan@brunel.ac.uk Received September 6th, 2010; revised November 16th, 2010; accepted November 20th, 2010. ABSTRACT This paper presents systematic and improved methodologies to characterize the surface and fracture of elementary hemp fibres