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The effect of alkaline treatment on tensile properties of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites


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Bachtiar, Dandi and Salit, Mohd Sapuan and Megat Ahmad, Megat Mohamad Hamdan (2008) The effect of alkaline treatment on tensile properties of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites. Materials and Design, 29 (7). pp. 1285-1290. ISSN 0264-1275; ESSN: 1873-4197

Abstract

A study on the effect of alkaline treatment on tensile properties of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites is presented in this paper. The treatment was carried out using sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solutions at two different concentrations and three different soaking times. The hydrophilic nature of sugar palm fibre makes it difficult to adhere to hydrophobic epoxy and therefore posed the problem of interfacial bonding between fibre and matrix and such treatment was needed to alleviate such problem. The composite specimens were tested for tensile property determination. Some fractured specimens were examined under scanning electron microscope (SEM) to study the microstructure of the materials. Inconsistent results were obtained for tensile strengths, which indicate that the treatment is not very effective yet to improve the interfacial bonding. However, for tensile modulus, the results are much higher than untreated fibre composite specimens, which proved the effectiveness of the treatment.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2007.09.006
Publisher: Elsevier
Keywords: Arenga pinnata; Sugar palm fibre; Epoxy composites; Alkaline treatment; Tensile properties
Depositing User: Fatimah Zahrah @ Aishah Amran
Date Deposited: 15 Dec 2014 06:51
Last Modified: 21 Aug 2015 04:24
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8267
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