Natural Fiber Composites for a Sustainable Environment

This book covers all the relevant details of natural fiber composites (NFCs) commencing from the reinforcement side to their fabrication routes, mechanical, thermal, and metallurgical characterizations, machining and joining aspects (conventional, advanced, and hybrid modes), surface analysis (defects and wettability characterization), and so on. It details the reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling of NFCs.

• Gives a complete overview of the mechanical, metallurgical, and tribological aspects of natural fiber composites
• Includes automotive applications and potential of natural fiber composites
• Covers tribo, thermal, and mechanical aspects apart from joining techniques
• Elaborate details of joining, reuse, remanufacturing, and surface modification
• Discusses all aspects of natural fiber composites toward sustainable manufacturing

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in sustainable composites, materials science, and polymers.

Jibin T. Philip is currently serving as a National Post-doctoral Fellow (N-PDF) funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Karnataka, India. He is also an Assistant Professor (on lien) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Automobile) at Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

Jerin Jose currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Italy. The area of research is in the "recyclability of polymer materials used in additive manufacturing." He has also completed another postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Salento, Italy.

Soney C. George is working as Dean, Research, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappaly, and Director, Center for Nanoscience Technology. George had completed M.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry with first rank from Mahatma Gandhi University in the year 1992. He took Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University in 1999.