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    Identification of preferred combination of factors in manufacturing bioepoxy/clay nanocomposites

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    Authors
    Salam, H.
    Dong, Yu
    Davies, I.
    Pramanik, Alokesh
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Salam, H. and Dong, Y. and Davies, I. and Pramanik, A. 2018. Identification of preferred combination of factors in manufacturing bioepoxy/clay nanocomposites. Advanced Composite Materials. 27 (5): pp. 511-530.
    Source Title
    Advanced Composite Materials
    DOI
    10.1080/09243046.2018.1480147
    ISSN
    0924-3046
    School
    School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (CME)
    Remarks

    This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Advanced Composite Materials: The Official Journal of the Japan Society of Composite Materials on 7/6/2018 available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09243046.2018.1480147

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70195
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The current study aims to identify the preferred combination of factors for manufacturing bioepoxy/clay nanocomposites based on epoxidised soybean oil (ESO), including material formulation and manufacturing parameters for maximising tensile strengths of nanocomposites according to Taguchi design of experiments (DoEs). A Taguchi mixed-level DoEs with an L16 orthogonal array was selected. The response was set to achieve the maximum tensile strengths of nanocomposites with a preferred combination of factors determined by the Pareto analysis of variance (ANOVA). The associated results revealed that the ESO content was found to be the most significant factor with a contribution percentage of 66.63% amongst nine factors investigated. This result was followed by two less significant factors, namely mechanical mixing speed and clay content with contribution percentages of 19.09 and 7.01%, respectively. However, other factors of clay type, curing agent type, mechanical mixing temperature and time, as well as sonication frequency and time, were categorised as non-significant factors from the manufacturing and economical point of view. A confirmation test was conducted based on the preferred combination of factors showing good agreement with statistically predicted results.

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