Effect of Fibre Loading on the Flexural Properties of Natural Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

Mathivanan Davindrabrabu; Parlaungan Siregar Januar; Bachtiar Dandi; Mat Rejab Mohd Ruzaimi; Tezara Cionita

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.695.85

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Effect of Fibre Loading on the Flexural Properties of Natural Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

Abstract:

The use of pineapple leaf fibres as reinforcement in plastics had increased rapidly in past few years. Thus this project was conducted to determine and compare the flexural strength of pure epoxy and pineapple leaf fibres reinforced epoxy. The natural fibres were mixed with epoxy and hardener by weight percentage fibre content. The process employed to fabricate the specimens was hand lay-up and the natural fibres was oriented randomly. The dimensions of the specimens for flexure test were based on ASTM D790 respectively. The results obtained shows that 15% PALF reinforced epoxy composite achieved the highest flexural strength among the natural fibers reinforced epoxy composites.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 695)

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85-88

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November 2014

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Mathivanan Davindrabrabu*, Parlaungan Siregar Januar, Bachtiar Dandi, Mat Rejab Mohd Ruzaimi, Tezara Cionita

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Mechanical Property, Natural Fibre Reinforced Composites, Pineapple Leaf Fibres

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