Effect of immersion treatment of fibre on mechanical properties of putruded kenaf vinyl ester composites

Recently, a traditional materials such as metal, ceramic, plastic and wood which have served in engineering applications for a long time are being substituted by the natural composite materials. The natural composite materials seem to be advantages over the traditional material in their recyclabilit...

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Main Author:	Mohamad, Nur Marliana
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Kenaf - Case studies Vinyl ester resins Fibrous composites
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77085/1/IPTPH%202017%2011%20IR.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.770852020-02-07T06:51:11Z Effect of immersion treatment of fibre on mechanical properties of putruded kenaf vinyl ester composites 2016-11 Mohamad, Nur Marliana Recently, a traditional materials such as metal, ceramic, plastic and wood which have served in engineering applications for a long time are being substituted by the natural composite materials. The natural composite materials seem to be advantages over the traditional material in their recyclability, sustainability, easy to obtain and cheap, easy and low cost of production and environmental friendly. Despite the natural fibre composite have many advantages but it also have the limitation high moisture absorption compare to syntetic composites. The purpose of this research is to compare the mechanical properties of kenaf and glass pultruded vinyl ester composites and to determine the effect of immersion in sea water, distilled water and acidic solutions on mechanical properties of kenaf pultruded vinyl ester composites. The specimens of the kenaf composites were produced using pultrusion machine and immersed in various solution such as sea water, distilled water and acidic solution. The specimen tested using mechanical testing such as tensile, flexural and impact test. These studies have been done in order to evaluate the strength, stiffness, and toughness behaviour of kenaf reinforced vinyl ester composites as which is can be used as replacement of raw materials for the reinforcement of polymer matrix composites The mechanical properties of the kenaf and glass pultruded composites has been carried out to compare the performance of the kenaf pultruded over the glass pultruded which is shown a largely used in commercials. The results of tensile strength of the glass and kenaf pultruded 248.1 and 148.5 MPa, tensile modulus 14.1 and 12.3 GPa, flexural strength 322.2 and 185.5 MPa, flexural modulus 5.3 and 2.03 GPa and impact energy 274.73 and 59.71kJ/m2 respectively. The results on the effect of immersion in acidic, sea water and distilled water on mechanical properties of kenaf pultruded reinforced vinyl ester composites shows that sea water has the smallest reduction of tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength, were decreased from 1st, 2nd and 3rd weeks. Acidic solution shows the highest reduction of the properties of tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength due to the highest degradation on the pultruded composites. Kenaf - Case studies Vinyl ester resins Fibrous composites 2016-11 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77085/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77085/1/IPTPH%202017%2011%20IR.pdf text en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Kenaf - Case studies Vinyl ester resins Fibrous composites Salit, Mohd Sapuan
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
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topic	Kenaf - Case studies Vinyl ester resins Fibrous composites
spellingShingle	Kenaf - Case studies Vinyl ester resins Fibrous composites Mohamad, Nur Marliana Effect of immersion treatment of fibre on mechanical properties of putruded kenaf vinyl ester composites
description	Recently, a traditional materials such as metal, ceramic, plastic and wood which have served in engineering applications for a long time are being substituted by the natural composite materials. The natural composite materials seem to be advantages over the traditional material in their recyclability, sustainability, easy to obtain and cheap, easy and low cost of production and environmental friendly. Despite the natural fibre composite have many advantages but it also have the limitation high moisture absorption compare to syntetic composites. The purpose of this research is to compare the mechanical properties of kenaf and glass pultruded vinyl ester composites and to determine the effect of immersion in sea water, distilled water and acidic solutions on mechanical properties of kenaf pultruded vinyl ester composites. The specimens of the kenaf composites were produced using pultrusion machine and immersed in various solution such as sea water, distilled water and acidic solution. The specimen tested using mechanical testing such as tensile, flexural and impact test. These studies have been done in order to evaluate the strength, stiffness, and toughness behaviour of kenaf reinforced vinyl ester composites as which is can be used as replacement of raw materials for the reinforcement of polymer matrix composites The mechanical properties of the kenaf and glass pultruded composites has been carried out to compare the performance of the kenaf pultruded over the glass pultruded which is shown a largely used in commercials. The results of tensile strength of the glass and kenaf pultruded 248.1 and 148.5 MPa, tensile modulus 14.1 and 12.3 GPa, flexural strength 322.2 and 185.5 MPa, flexural modulus 5.3 and 2.03 GPa and impact energy 274.73 and 59.71kJ/m2 respectively. The results on the effect of immersion in acidic, sea water and distilled water on mechanical properties of kenaf pultruded reinforced vinyl ester composites shows that sea water has the smallest reduction of tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength, were decreased from 1st, 2nd and 3rd weeks. Acidic solution shows the highest reduction of the properties of tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength due to the highest degradation on the pultruded composites.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Mohamad, Nur Marliana
author_facet	Mohamad, Nur Marliana
author_sort	Mohamad, Nur Marliana
title	Effect of immersion treatment of fibre on mechanical properties of putruded kenaf vinyl ester composites
title_short	Effect of immersion treatment of fibre on mechanical properties of putruded kenaf vinyl ester composites
title_full	Effect of immersion treatment of fibre on mechanical properties of putruded kenaf vinyl ester composites
title_fullStr	Effect of immersion treatment of fibre on mechanical properties of putruded kenaf vinyl ester composites
title_full_unstemmed	Effect of immersion treatment of fibre on mechanical properties of putruded kenaf vinyl ester composites
title_sort	effect of immersion treatment of fibre on mechanical properties of putruded kenaf vinyl ester composites
granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate	2016
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77085/1/IPTPH%202017%2011%20IR.pdf
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Effect of immersion treatment of fibre on mechanical properties of putruded kenaf vinyl ester composites

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