STUDIES ON PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SISAL (Agave sisalana) PLANT LEAVES
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 48
Abstract
Sisal plant produces hardest vegetable fibre from the mature leaves.In this study the physical properties of individual elements for sisal (Agave sisalana) plant and leaf were determined using basic measuring devices.A free falling device was fabricated and used to assess the energy required for cutting the sisal leaf at every 0.1 m distance along leaf length and measure the unitary energy. The unitary energy was quantified by the relationship between the leaf cutting energy and transverse sectional area of same cut positions. The unitary energy required for cutting of leaf was found to be 2.38 Jcm-2. The relationship between cutting position, its sectional area andenergygoverns second order polynomial equation with correlation coefficient (R2) near to 1.
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R. K. NAIK
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