Beg, M. D. H. and Alam, A. K. M. Moshiul and Mina, M. F. and Mamun, A. A. and Bledzki, A. K. (2015) Degradation And Stability Of Green Composites Fabricated From Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch Fiber And Polylactic Acid: Effect Of Fiber Length. Journal of Composite Materials. ISSN 0021-9983 (print); 1530-793X (online). (Published)
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In this work, polylactic acid and oil palm empty fruit bunch fiber-reinforced green composites have been fabricated by using random and fixed-length fibers through extrusion followed by injection molding. The prepared composites have been characterized by mechanical tests, thermal analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray diffractometry. Among all fabricated composites having various sizes and contents of fibers, 30-mm long and 40 wt% empty fruit bunch fiber-incorporated composites show the optimum tensile strength and modulus. As compared to raw empty fruit bunch fiber-loaded composites, simultaneous ultrasound and alkali-treated empty fruit bunch-reinforced composites have revealed improved mechanical performances, enhanced crystallinity, and thermal stability. In case of soil burial degradation studies, treated empty fruit bunch fiber-reinforced composite has been found to be more stable than untreated fiber-reinforced composite.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Noorul Farina Arifin |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Dec 2014 08:25 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Aug 2018 07:35 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8011 |
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