Material Selection For Natural Fibre Composite Automotive Component

Abdul Aziz, Nur Farah Azwani (2018) Material Selection For Natural Fibre Composite Automotive Component. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The conventional materials for automotive interior door panel was replaced with natural fibre composite materials selection in order to overcome the lack performance of premature product that easy to damage, risk the safety of consumers and to reduce the consumption of fuel that can affect the environment issue. As a result of extensive research and development, new natural fibre composite materials are selected based on the listed of product design specification for automotive door panel materials composite that have been proclaims by Borealis Group. The decision of selecting the composite materials was performed using an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method and the best volume of fraction and the stiffness of composite materials of a fibre and matrix for the selected composite materials will be calculated by using Rule of Mixture (ROM) method. The results show that flax fibre from natural (plant) fibre and polyamide (PA) matrix polymer is the best selection of material composite for vehicles interior door panel in automotive industries. The suitable volume of fraction of composite material for interior door panel is 10% of fibre with 90% of matrix. Borealis Group which proclaims the PDS value for automotive interior as the density < 1180 kg/ and young modulus > 2.3 GPa. The results show that the value of flax + PA was within the above mentioned in PDS value range. For conclusion, the reduction of density can reduce the weight of the vehicles and reduce the fuel consumption that can affect the environmental issues. Lastly, the highest properties of young modulus from composite materials also will able to give a good performance to produce the automotive interior door panel.

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