Today, global environmental issues, such as global warming and fossil depletion, drive a paradigm shift in material applications from conventional fossil sources to renewable sources. Following this trend, the topic of this thesis is to analyse the use of biobased resources for fibre reinforced composite fabrication. Currently the most widely used fibre reinforced composites are composed of glass fibre reinforcements and polymeric matrices. In this thesis, the biobased alternative, i.e. flax fibre, which is one of the most widely used natural fibres, is studied as a glass fibre substitute from an environmental impact point of view.(...)
