Effect of Sodium Hydroxide on The Tensile Properties of Sugar Palm Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composites

Global warming, environmental changes, and other problems have been increasing in the last decade. Researchers and scholars want to safeguard life on the earth by making ecofriendly products, like natural composite materials. Natural fibre is environmentally valuable because of its biodegradable nat...

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Main Authors:	A. A., Mohammed, Bachtiar, Dandi, Siregar, J. P., M. R. M., Rejab
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spelling	ump-144312018-02-21T06:04:03Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14431/ Effect of Sodium Hydroxide on The Tensile Properties of Sugar Palm Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composites A. A., Mohammed Bachtiar, Dandi Siregar, J. P. M. R. M., Rejab TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Global warming, environmental changes, and other problems have been increasing in the last decade. Researchers and scholars want to safeguard life on the earth by making ecofriendly products, like natural composite materials. Natural fibre is environmentally valuable because of its biodegradable nature. However, there is a serious problem caused by the incompatibility between fibre and matrix. In this work, sugar palm fibre was combined with thermoplastic polyurethane composites after treatment with different concentrations of sodium hydroxide from 2 to 6% to enhance the compatibility between them. An extrusion machine was used to combine 30% by weight of the sugar palm fibre and 70% by weight of thermoplastic polyurethane composites. The temperature, rotation velocity, and fibre size were fixed at (180–190–200°C), 40 rpm and 250 µm respectively. The composite was characterized according to ASTM D638. The sodium hydroxide treatment of the fibre could provide a good tensile modulus of 440 MPa at 2% of NaOH, and strain of 41.6% at 6% NaOH of the composite. However, the tensile strength was decreased, where the highest amount of 5.49 MPa recorded at 6% NaOH. Meanwhile, the tensile modulus and strain of the composites are found to be much better than those of untreated ones. In contrast, the tensile strength was still not improved. Faculty Mechanical Engineering, UMP 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14431/1/Effect%20of%20Sodium%20Hydroxide%20on%20The%20Tensile%20Properties%20of%20Sugar%20Palm%20Fibre%20Reinforced%20Thermoplastic%20Polyurethane%20Composites.pdf A. A., Mohammed and Bachtiar, Dandi and Siregar, J. P. and M. R. M., Rejab (2016) Effect of Sodium Hydroxide on The Tensile Properties of Sugar Palm Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composites. Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences (JMES) , 10 (1). pp. 1765-1777. ISSN 2289-4659 (print); 2231-8380 (online) http://dx.doi.org/10.15282/jmes.10.1.2016.2.0170 DOI: 10.15282/jmes.10.1.2016.2.0170
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description	Global warming, environmental changes, and other problems have been increasing in the last decade. Researchers and scholars want to safeguard life on the earth by making ecofriendly products, like natural composite materials. Natural fibre is environmentally valuable because of its biodegradable nature. However, there is a serious problem caused by the incompatibility between fibre and matrix. In this work, sugar palm fibre was combined with thermoplastic polyurethane composites after treatment with different concentrations of sodium hydroxide from 2 to 6% to enhance the compatibility between them. An extrusion machine was used to combine 30% by weight of the sugar palm fibre and 70% by weight of thermoplastic polyurethane composites. The temperature, rotation velocity, and fibre size were fixed at (180–190–200°C), 40 rpm and 250 µm respectively. The composite was characterized according to ASTM D638. The sodium hydroxide treatment of the fibre could provide a good tensile modulus of 440 MPa at 2% of NaOH, and strain of 41.6% at 6% NaOH of the composite. However, the tensile strength was decreased, where the highest amount of 5.49 MPa recorded at 6% NaOH. Meanwhile, the tensile modulus and strain of the composites are found to be much better than those of untreated ones. In contrast, the tensile strength was still not improved.
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author	A. A., Mohammed Bachtiar, Dandi Siregar, J. P. M. R. M., Rejab
author_facet	A. A., Mohammed Bachtiar, Dandi Siregar, J. P. M. R. M., Rejab
author_sort	A. A., Mohammed
title	Effect of Sodium Hydroxide on The Tensile Properties of Sugar Palm Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composites
title_short	Effect of Sodium Hydroxide on The Tensile Properties of Sugar Palm Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composites
title_full	Effect of Sodium Hydroxide on The Tensile Properties of Sugar Palm Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composites
title_fullStr	Effect of Sodium Hydroxide on The Tensile Properties of Sugar Palm Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composites
title_full_unstemmed	Effect of Sodium Hydroxide on The Tensile Properties of Sugar Palm Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composites
title_sort	effect of sodium hydroxide on the tensile properties of sugar palm fibre reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane composites
publisher	Faculty Mechanical Engineering, UMP
publishDate	2016
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