Sustainability and human health issues pertinent to fibre reinforced polymer composites usage: A review

The specific properties of fibre reinforced polymers give them a lot of advantages over traditional materials but the long life of polymeric composites poses serious environmental threats raising sustainability concerns. The other issue of importance concerning the innovators and environmentalists i...

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Published in:Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites 2014-06, Vol.33 (11), p.1069-1084
Main Authors: Zaman, Asif uz, Gutub, Saud A, Soliman, Mohamed F, Wafa, Mahmoud A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fiber reinforced plastics
Health
Human
Human beings
Impact analysis
Polymer matrix composites
Reviewing
Sustainability
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Summary:The specific properties of fibre reinforced polymers give them a lot of advantages over traditional materials but the long life of polymeric composites poses serious environmental threats raising sustainability concerns. The other issue of importance concerning the innovators and environmentalists in the mass usage of this material is its health impacts on human beings. This paper thus attempts to highlight and surface out the issues related to fibre reinforced polymers’ sustainability and their health impacts on human beings, by reviewing past studies on the subject, to examine critically the extensive body of published data, prior observations and ideas on the subject in order to identify and analyse those features that are intrinsic and unique to fibre reinforced polymers. This would thus serve as a conceptual model for future research on fibre reinforced polymer composites sustainability and health concerns.
ISSN:0731-6844
1530-7964
DOI:10.1177/0731684414521087