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JOURNAL OF POLYMERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Volume 29, Issue 7, Pages 2321-2336Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10924-021-02043-3
Keywords
Hybrid composites; Polypropylene; Fly-ash; Sisal fiber; Eco-friendly
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- IIT Roorkee
- Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD)
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This study focused on developing fly-ash and sisal fiber reinforced hybrid polypropylene composites, which showed improved impact strength, tensile strength, flexural strength, and thermal degradation stability. The addition of fly ash led to a positive shift in glass transition temperatures and improved storage modulus of the composite materials. The composites with higher fly ash content demonstrated lower water uptake properties.
This study focused on developing fly-ash and sisal fiber reinforced hybrid polypropylene (PP) composites. The hybridized composite containing 15 wt.% each of sisal fiber and fly-ash shows highest impact strength of 1.42 kJ/m(2), demonstrating an improvement by similar to 125 % and similar to 25 % respectively in comparison to neat PP and composite reinforced with only sisal fiber. Highest and lowest tensile strengths of 37.09 MPa and 24.69 MPa were recorded by composite containing 30 wt.% each of sisal fiber and fly ash with PP and impact modified PP respectively. Flexural strength recorded a greatest value of 44.09 MPa for 30 wt.% reinforced sisal fiber with PP against a lowest estimate of 30.86 MPa for 30 wt.% reinforced fly ash with impact modified PP. The FTIR results confirmed the esterification reaction among sisal fibers and maleic anhydride groups. DMA showed an apparent positive shift in the glass transition temperatures of hybrid composites upon the addition of fly ash. Composite reinforced with 30 wt.% sisal fiber and fly ash exhibited a storage modulus of 13,155 MPa and 8,795 MPa at -80 degrees C, respectively. Thermal degradation stability of all the hybrid composites improved significantly. The lowest water uptake properties have been demonstrated from the composite with highest fly ash content (15 %).
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