The Study Of Natural Rubber - Polyethylene Polymer Mixing Mathod

Rohani, Osman (2008) The Study Of Natural Rubber - Polyethylene Polymer Mixing Mathod. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This research is focused on examining and characterizing the properties of combination of elastomer which is natural rubber with thermoplastic which is polyethylene. Improvements in strength of polyethylene (PE) can be sought by melt blending with natural rubbers (NR). In this study, PE is blended with two types of different NR which is indoor and outdoor storage. In this research, it is studying about the properties with two type of polymer which is elastomer and thermoplastic when they are blending together. The purpose of this research is to improve the thermoplastic elastomer based on rubber-plastic blends and also to determine their mechanical properties with different ratio mixing between of them. The ratio percentage blended between natural rubber and polyethylene that are focused in this work which is 10%, 20% and 30% of natural rubber. Each percentage of this, were examining their mechanical properties with two types of testing which are flexure test and tensile test. In the end of this research, NR indoor is identified as a good NR that can blended properly with polyethylene than NR outdoor based on the result from mechanical testing.

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