Tensile Study Of Chloroprene Rubber With Coal Ash As Green Filler Reinforcement

Kamal, Nurul 'Aini Haziqah (2018) Tensile Study Of Chloroprene Rubber With Coal Ash As Green Filler Reinforcement. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Chloroprene rubber is one of the first oil resistant synthetic rubbers. It may be considered as an excellent general purpose rubber with a high-quality stability of physical and chemical properties. Fillers may additionally lie used according to modify the physical properties concerning either unvulcanized or vulcanized rubbers. This project focuses on tensile study of chloroprene rubber with coal ash as green filler reinforcement. Coal Ash (CA) is used as filler for chloroprene rubber (CR) as a primary matrix material by using literature based formulation in search of improvement on their physical and mechanical properties. This project was carried out to determine the best formulation of chloroprene with coal ash compound. Besides, to study the mechanical properties such as tensile strength and hardness of material. In order to produce the product, the samples of the material compound have been made before undergo with various testing. To produce the material compound the difference compositions have been study and the mixing process was done using internal mixer. After that, the composition was fabricate into thin sheets using hot press machine with specific condition. Then, material sample was cut according to ASTM of each testing. This project focused on mechanical testing such as tensile test and hardness test. Physical testing on the sample also undergo density test. The morphological analysis of the sample has been made using scanning electron microscopy. The increasing of coal ash content had significantly increase tensile strength and effect to the mechanical testing behaviour compared to pure chloroprene. In overall, all the listed research objectives were successfully achieved from this preliminary research.

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