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11
Weathering Study
of Biofiber-Based
Green Composites
Vijay K.Thakur, Manju K.Thakur, and Raju K.Gupta
11.1 INTRODUCTION
Biobers are hastily emerging as a potential reinforcement in green composite mate-
rials because of their distinct advantages such as their renewable nature, biodegrad-
ability, cost-effectiveness, nonabrasiveness, high toughness, low density, enhanced
energy recovery, and recyclability (Hagstrand and Oksman 2001; Kabir et al. 2012a,b;
Ouajai and Shanks 2009a,b; Singha and Thakur 2009a,b). The substitution of con-
ventional materials with biober-based materials is gaining immense attractiveness
as a result of growing environ ...