Mechanical properties of hybrid composite consist of wood dust, copper wire and reinforced with polyester resin

Rosli, Muhammad Akmal Daniel (2023) Mechanical properties of hybrid composite consist of wood dust, copper wire and reinforced with polyester resin. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Recently, the furniture industry in Malaysia especially wooden furniture has gained popularity which leads to generating a huge amount of industrial waste such as wood dust, sawdust, and much more. In the present work, a new analysis of wood dust and copper wire mechanical behavior reinforced by polyester resin (WPR) composites were presented. The mixing composites were fabricated using the hand mixing technique to produce three ecofriendly ratios between natural and synthetic materials. These composites were cut according to the size of the specimen of ASTM standard. These composites ratios are 20% of wood dust and 80% of resin (20WPR), 40% of wood dust and 60% of resin (40WPR), 50% of wood dust and 50% of resin (50WPR), 60% of wood dust and 40% of resin (60WPR), and 80% of wood dust and 20% of resin (80WPR), each of the ratios will have 10% of copper wire as filler. The images of the wood dust were captured using Nikon SMZ 745T microscope and their mechanical properties were analyzed using tensile, impact, and flexural testing. The collected data were analyzed using statistical analysis. Numerical computations and graphical demonstrations are carried out to observe the mechanical behavior of the WPR composites according to the three ratios. The different ratios of WPR composites will be affected by their mechanical behavior.

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