Oil Palm Fibre and Nano-Silica Reinforced Epoxy Composite Material

Samuel, N.; Debnath, Sujan; Rahman, Muhammad; Nabinejad, O.; Moola, Mohan

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.980.23

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Samuel, N.

Debnath, Sujan

Rahman, Muhammad

Nabinejad, O.

Moola, Mohan

Date

2014

Type

Journal Article

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Samuel, N. and Debnath, S. and Rahman, M. and Nabinejad, O. and Moola, M. 2014. Oil Palm Fibre and Nano-Silica Reinforced Epoxy Composite Material. Advanced Materials Research. 980: pp. 23-27.

Source Title

Oil Palm Fibre and Nano-Silica Reinforced Epoxy Composite Material

Source Conference

5th International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Technology, ICMST 2014

DOI

10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.980.23

ISSN

1022-6680

School

Curtin Sarawak

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43157

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

This paper presents a study on tensile properties of Nano Silicon Carbide (n-SiC) and oilpalm fibre (OPF) reinforced epoxy composites. The dosage of n-SiC and OPF are limited to 0%, 1%,3% & 5% by mass of the total epoxy material. As a part of the research, experimental study is carriedout on n-SiC and OPF based epoxy composites to investigate the tensile strength of the compositematerial. The utilization of 1% n-SiC& 1% treated OPF shows an improvement in tensile strengthcompared to the pure epoxy. The experimental results are also compared with 3-D finite elementanalysis results and a good agreement is observed between the experimental and the finite elementresults.