Investigation on the tensile strength of treated and untreated woven sugar palm fibre reinforced composites
Natural fibres offer environmental benefits such as biodegradable and can be obtained from renewable resources. However, there is lack of investigations done to characterize and compare different types and orientation done on the natural fibres. This paper determines the tensile strength of sugar pa...
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Trans Tech Publications Inc
2014
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.660.588 http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.660.588 http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6420/1/Investigation_on_the_Tensile_Strength_of_Treated_and_Untreated_Woven.pdf |
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| Summary: | Natural fibres offer environmental benefits such as biodegradable and can be obtained
from renewable resources. However, there is lack of investigations done to characterize and
compare different types and orientation done on the natural fibres. This paper determines the tensile
strength of sugar palm fibres under various treatment processes. The composites were fabricated
using woven sugar-palm fibre treated with alkali and acid and used epoxy resin as the matrices for
the composite. The tensile test was done to determine the tensile strength of the composite and the
surface morphological analysis was done using SEM. The results demonstrated that the composite
with the alkali treated fibres produced higher tensile strength compared to untreated and acid treated
fibres. With these properties, it shows that treated woven sugar-palm fibre composite can withstand
high stress load during operation compared to untreated fibres reinforced composites. |
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