Hamdy Mohamed Elsayed Morsy <br/><br/>
Characteristics of corn starch - based composites reinforced with flax and date palm fibers /  
 خصائص مؤلفات النشا المدعمة بالياف الكتان والنخيل 
Hamdy Mohamed Elsayed Morsy ; Supervised Yehia Shash , Hassan Megahed , Mahmoud Mohamed Farag 
 - Cairo :   Hamdy Mohamed Elsayed Morsy ,   2012 
 - 121 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   30cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Mechanical Design and Production 
<br/><br/> Great attention was paid to develop new eco - friendly " green " materials with growing environmental awareness in recent years . Composites of environmental friendly reinforcements and resins that provide high performance at affordable costs are in continuous progress . In this work , completely biodegradable thermoplastic starch ( TPS ) based matrix was reinforced with flax and date palm fibers ( DPFs ) individually with different fiber weight fractions ( 20 to 80 wt. % ) in order to investigate their effect on composite mechanical properties 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Biodegradable composite  Date palm fibers  Flax fibers