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Factorial Study on the Tensile Strength of a Coir Fiber-Reinforced Epoxy Composite

Published Date
doi:10.1016/j.aasri.2012.11.040
Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control
Open Access, Creative Commons license

    • Author 
  • Fairuz I. Romli a,,
  • Ahmad Nizam Alias b
  • Azmin Shakrine Mohd Rafie a
  • Dayang Laila Abang Abdul Majid a
    • aDepartment of Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
    • bMechanical and Manufacturing Section, University Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia France Institute, 43650 Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
    Available online 22 January 2013.

    Abstract

    This paper presents a factorial analysis on the tensile strength of a coir-based composite. Three interested parameters in this study are fiber volume fraction, curing time and compression load applied during fabrication of the composite. The experimental setting is based on the full-factorial design of experiments, which amounts to a total of 18 tensile test cases. Overall, the results from analysis of variance on the test data show that coir fiber volume fraction and interaction effect between curing time and coir fiber volume fraction are the prominent factors to the tensile strength of the composite. On the opposite end, the contribution from compression loading during fabrication of the material seems to be negligible.

    Keywords

  • coir fiber
  • composite
  • tensile strength
  • factorial analysis

    • References
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      Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of American Applied Science Research Institute.
    • ⁎ 
      Corresponding author. Tel.: +603 89466399; fax: +603 86567125.
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    Mechanical and Microstructure Characterization of Coconut Spathe Fibers and Kenaf Bast Fibers Reinforced Epoxy Polymer Matrix Composites ☆

    Published Date
    doi:10.1016/j.mspro.2014.07.476
    International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, ICAMME 2014
    Open Access, Creative Commons license

    • Author 
  • S. Vijayakumar a,,
  • T. Nilavarasan b
  • R. Usharani c
  • L. Karunamoorthy d
    • aDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University College of Engineering, Villupuram, Tamilnadu, India 605103
    • bDepartment of Aerospace Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India 600044
    • cDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Thanthai Periyar Govt Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India 632002
    • dDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai Tamilnadu, India 600025
    Available online 10 September 2014.

    Abstract
    In this present study, the natural fibers such as kenaf and coconut spathe are reinforced in polymer matrix by hand layup process. Alkali treated coconut spathe and kenaf bast fibers are uniformly dispersed with epoxy resin and cured using tri-ethylene tetra amine (TETA) at 250C. The weight proportion of the polymer matrix is maintained constantly 10% whereas the proportions of the fibers are altered within the composites. The mechanical properties like tensile, flexural, impact strengths are analyzed. Fracture analysis of fiber reinforced composites and the effect of alkali treatment on fibers are also observed using scanning electron microscope (SEM).

    Keywords

  • Polymer composites
  • Natural fibers
  • Alkali treatment
  • Mechanical properties
  • SEM

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      • Mechanical behavior and microstructural analysis of sugarcane bagasse reinforced polypropylene composites
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      • Structure property studies of fibres from various parts of the coconut tree
      • Journal of Material science, Volume 17, 1982, pp. 2453–2462
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      Selection and peer-review under responsibility of Organizing Committee of AMME 2014.
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      Corresponding author. Tel.: +91-9444532526; fax: +04146-243600.
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    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261306908005426
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