characteristic and performance of elementary hemp fibre特征和基本的大麻纤维的性能.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 by Field Emission Scanning Microscope (FE-SEM), determine the Microfibril Angles (MFA) by an ad- vanced microscopy technology and examine the crystallinity by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD ) and Fourier Transform Infra- red (FTIR). The results showed that 1) There existed various deformations/defects in elementary hemp fibres, showing four types of deformations, namely kink bands, dislocations, nodes and slip planes. The crack on the surface of elemen- tary fibres was the initial breaking point under stress; 2) Under tension the primary wall and secondary wall of hemp fibres showed different deformation and breaking behaviour. The crack initiated in a weak point of primary wall and subsequently propagated along radial direction from S 1 to S2 layers; 3) The average MFA for the broken regions of S2 layer was 6.16 ˚ compared to 2.65 ˚ for the normal hemp fibres and the breaking of hemp fibres occurred at the points where had the biggest MFA; 4) The average MFA was 2.65 ˚ for S2 layer and 80.35 ˚ for S 1 layer; 5) The Crystallinity Index (CI) determined by XRD and FTIR was very similar, showing the lattice parameters of the hemp fibres tested a = 6.97 Å, b = 6.26 Å, c = 11.88 Å and γ = 97.21 ˚, and the ratio of 1423 to 896 cm- 1 was found more suitable for CI evaluation for hemp fibres. Keywords: Natural Fibres, Fracture, Crack, X-Ray