Application Of Kenaf Fiber-PP Composite For Fabrication On Interior Part Of Automotive Component

Sofian, Muhamad Fitri (2018) Application Of Kenaf Fiber-PP Composite For Fabrication On Interior Part Of Automotive Component. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Nowadays, sustainability of materials and manufacturing, cost and energy consumption, environment and health issue, are the factors that affect the rate of production. Due to that factor, most of the company widely use natural fiber to overcome that difficulty. Furthermore, Kenaf fibre which is one of the natural fibre can be a potential to act as reinforcement with polypropylene (PP) as matrix to create a composite material. In order to make that happen, the mechanical properties and physical properties of this composite material have to be identify. Kenaf fibre and PP are compound together with different fibre composition on each sample. It started with, the natural fibre which is kenaf prepared from raw and then undergoes alkaline treatment. Kenaf is cut into 1 cm and then mixed with PP into the mould and is compressed with hot press and cooling machine in specified parameter of temperature, pressure and time. After the sample is prepared, it will undergo several type test which is tensile test (ASTM D3039), density test (ASTM D792) and hardness test (ASTM D2240). For microstructure analysis, Dino-Lite digital microscope is used to analyse the composition of fibre for each sample. According to the result from tensile test, it shows that maximum load on Kenaf fibre/PP was decreasing linearly with increasing content of fibre. For hardness test, it was found that there is increasing of hardness with the increment of fibre content. However, the trend of density was increasing as the increasing of fibre content in sample.

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