TENSILE PROPERTIES OF UNIDIRECTIONAL KENAF FIBER POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITE

Authors

  • Dulina Tholibon Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi Selangor, Malaysia
  • Abu Bakar Sulong Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi Selangor, Malaysia
  • Norhamidi Muhammad Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi Selangor, Malaysia
  • Nur Farhani Ismail Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi Selangor, Malaysia
  • Izdihar Tharazi Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi Selangor, Malaysia
  • Mohd Khairul Fadzly Md Radzi Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi Selangor, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v78.9153

Keywords:

Natural fiber, thermoplastic polymer, mechanical properties, unidirectional

Abstract

Over the last decade, awareness of environmental issues and the shortage of petroleum resources contribute to the important factors that encourage researchers to explore the potential use of natural fibers such as kenaf as reinforcement in ï¬ber reinforced composites. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of different processing condition (temperature, pressure and pressing time) on the tensile properties of unidirectional kenaf fiber polypropylene composite. Samples of composites were prepared by a hot pressing method. In this work, kenaf continuous long fibers from water retting process at 40%wt were aligned in parallel. Polypropylene (PP) in the form of pellets and powder had been used as a matrix. The results showed that, samples produced at temperature 2100C and pressure 5 MPa for 6 minutes hot pressing gives excellent tensile properties which 262% of improvement as compared to pure PP. This indicates that, kenaf fiber is suitable as reinforcement in polymer composite.   

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Published

2016-06-21

Issue

Vol. 78 No. 6-9: Advances in Research on Automotive Technology Vol. 1

Section

Science and Engineering

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TENSILE PROPERTIES OF UNIDIRECTIONAL KENAF FIBER POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITE. (2016). Jurnal Teknologi (Sciences & Engineering), 78(6-9). https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v78.9153