PMID- 35160493
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220219
IS  - 2073-4360 (Electronic)
IS  - 2073-4360 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 3
DP  - 2022 Jan 27
TI  - Micromechanical Modeling for Tensile Properties of Wood Plastic Composites: Use 
      of Pruned Waste from Pecan Orchards as Sustainable Material for Reinforcement of 
      Thermoplastic Composite.
LID - 10.3390/polym14030504 [doi]
LID - 504
AB  - Wood plastic composites (WPCs) specimens containing high-density polyethylene 
      (HDPE) and wood pruning waste were manufactured and evaluated for their 
      mechanical properties. Pecan waste was used as an accessible and sustainable 
      source in this study, and the effects of its particle size and concentration on 
      WPC strengths were evaluated. Pecan waste was milled and sieved to various 
      particle sizes, and testing samples were fabricated by mixing them in a 
      twin-screw extruder and injection molding. A coupling agent was used to create a 
      stable bond between the HDPE and wood. Both tensile modulus and strength were 
      increased with an increasing pecan flour concentration up to about 60 weigh 
      percent. A micromechanical model is proposed for predicting the mechanical 
      properties of the wood flour/fiber reinforce composite. This model uses a 
      correction factor of an elliptical of carried sizes and shapes. The preliminary 
      results of the model have a high correlation with the experimental values of the 
      composite in all mesh sizes.
FAU - Diaz-Mendoza, Juan Miguel
AU  - Diaz-Mendoza JM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7529-1223
AD  - Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Universidad Autonoma de 
      Ciudad Juarez, Av. Del Charro 450, Juarez Chih 32410, Mexico.
FAU - Valles-Rosales, Delia J
AU  - Valles-Rosales DJ
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9166-3234
AD  - Department of Industrial Engineering, New Mexico State University, 1060 Frenger 
      Mall Dr. MSC 4230, Room 294, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
FAU - Park, Young H
AU  - Park YH
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1022-7404
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico State University, 1780 E. 
      University Ave, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
FAU - Sabo, Ronald C
AU  - Sabo RC
AD  - USDA Forest Products Laboratory, One Gifford Pinchot Drive, Madison, WI 53726, 
      USA.
LA  - eng
GR  - 2015-38422-24112/National Institute of Food and Agriculture/
GR  - 2018-38422-28564/National Institute of Food and Agriculture/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220127
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Polymers (Basel)
JT  - Polymers
JID - 101545357
PMC - PMC8839127
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - micromechanical modeling
OT  - particle size
OT  - pecan waste
OT  - sustainable
OT  - tensile strength
OT  - wood plastic composites
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/02/16 06:00
MHDA- 2022/02/16 06:01
PMCR- 2022/01/27
CRDT- 2022/02/15 01:08
PHST- 2021/11/21 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/01/06 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/01/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/02/15 01:08 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/02/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/02/16 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/01/27 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - polym14030504 [pii]
AID - polymers-14-00504 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/polym14030504 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Polymers (Basel). 2022 Jan 27;14(3):504. doi: 10.3390/polym14030504.