The Application Of Pineapple Fibre Polypropylene (PP) Composite For Fabrication On Interior Part Of Automotive Component

Mohd Asannnan, Fitrasari (2017) The Application Of Pineapple Fibre Polypropylene (PP) Composite For Fabrication On Interior Part Of Automotive Component. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Recently, natural fibre existed as outstanding materials which become an importance material to replace the luxurious and nonrenewable synthetic fiber. In recent years, many natural fibres such as sisal, banana, kenaf, oil palm and jute have been used as reinforcement in the thermoplastic composite. Furthermore, the process of compounded materials between natural fibre and thermoplastic are for the applying it in the manufacturing of automotive, construction, furniture and goods industry. Also, Pineapple leaf fibre (PALF) is the one of natural fibres which is having a good potential to reinforce with thermoplastic materials and create a new superior composite materials. Therefore, this phenomenon related with this research which is purposely to investigate the mechanical properties PALF reinforced with polypropylene (PP) as a matrix with varying fiber weight fraction, to identify the physical properties of PALF reinforced with PP and to analyze the microstructure of PALF/PP composite. The process was starting with preparation from raw pineapple leaf and then treated with alkaline treatment. PALF and PP were compounded using hot compression process by using hot press and cooling machine to create a sample. The samples were prepared according to the standard requirement to perform for tensile test (ASTM D3039), density test (ASTM D792) and hardness test (ASTM D2240). For scanning electron microscope (SEM), is used to investigate the composition structure between fibre and matrix composite. Based on the result, it was found that tensile test and maximum load towards PALF/PP composite was decreasing linearly with increment of fibre loading. However, the trend for hardness and density was increasing linearly as the fibre loading increased. From this study, can be identified that 10 wt% of fibre loading is the best achiever for the composition structure of PALF/PP composite.

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