The Mechanical Properties Of Palm Oil Fiber Reinforced Polyproplene Composities

Muhammad Zainuddin, Muhammd Khairuddin (2019) The Mechanical Properties Of Palm Oil Fiber Reinforced Polyproplene Composities. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Natural fibers have been available for the replacement of luxury and non-renewed synthetic fibers in recent times as outstanding materials. In the last few years, many of the natural fiber used in the composite thermoplastic have been sisal, sugar cane, kenaf, palm oil and jute. 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. Palm Oil Fiber (POF) is a natural fiber with a good potential to strengthen thermoplastics and create a new top composite material. Therefore, this phenomenon was linked to this research which aimed at investigating the mechanical properties of polypropylene-backed POF (PP) as a matrix with varying weight of fibre, to identify PP-built physical properties of POF and to analyze the POF / PP composite microstructure. The process started with raw pineapple leaf preparation and was then alkalinized. By using the hot press and the cooling machine, POF and PP were combined with a hot compression process to create a sample. The samples have been developed for tensile tests (ASTM D3039), density tests (ASTM D792) and hardness tests (ASTM D2240) according to the standard requirements. The composition structure between fiber and matrix composite is investigated by the Scan electron microscope (SEM). The result showed a linear decrease in tensile testing and in maximum load for POF / PP composites with increasing fiber loading. The fiber loading was, however, up linearly with the density trend but decreasing with hardness. The study shows that the composition structure of POF / PP is best achieved by 10 wt % fiber loading

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