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Mechanical and water absorption properties of municipal solid waste and banana fiber‐reinforced urea formaldehyde composites
Author(s) -
Aseer J. Ronald,
Sankaranarayanasamy K.,
Jayabalan P.,
Natarajan R.,
Priya Dasan K.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
environmental progress and sustainable energy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.495
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1944-7450
pISSN - 1944-7442
DOI - 10.1002/ep.11966
Subject(s) - composite material , materials science , filler (materials) , absorption of water , ultimate tensile strength , fiber , flexural strength , volume fraction , banana peel , urea formaldehyde , natural fiber , thermal stability , chemistry , adhesive , biochemistry , organic chemistry , layer (electronics)
In this study, hybrid composites of municipal solid waste (MSW)/banana fiber reinforced urea formaldehyde were prepared in different filler ratio. Mechanical properties such as tensile, flexural, and impact strengths were investigated as a function of total volume fraction ( V f ) of filler (MSW and banana fiber), relative volume fraction of MSW and banana fiber and its chemical modification. The mechanical properties were found to be high at 40% V f of filler which indicates effective stress transfer between fiber and matrix. Then, composites with different volume ratios of MSW and banana fiber (100:0, 75:25, 50:50, 25:75, 0:100) are prepared by keeping total V f of filler as 40%. It is observed that addition of banana fiber imparts better mechanical and thermal stability properties to composites. Also, banana fiber addition increased the water absorption properties of composites. © 2014 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 34: 211–221, 2015
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