Effect Of Stitching On Woven Jute Fabric Embedded With Thermoplastic Binder System In Intraply Composite

Ling, Duncan Ruey Shan (2018) Effect Of Stitching On Woven Jute Fabric Embedded With Thermoplastic Binder System In Intraply Composite. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Since decades ago, composite material has gain the attention of the researchers due to its abundance of resources, low cost and good in mechanical and physical properties. Due to the advantages of composite material can provide, numerous development has been conducted constantly. This research 's objective is to investigate the effect of stitching on the jute fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite. The woven jute is fabricated manually with different design of stitching follows by applying hot press machine with polypropylene as reinforcing material. Furthermore, the fabricated composite is tested with tensile test, impact test, and hemispherical test according to ASTM standard in order to study the mechanical and physical properties of the intraply composite. In this study, the result revealed that T60/60 stitch woven jute produced the best mechanical performance by increased the specific strength of 20.42% compared to unstitched woven jute. From the study, the performance of the best stitch design has potential to produce shin guard as to replaced synthetic thermoplastic to enchance the impact and tensile properties of thecomposite.

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