Influence of Short Glass Fiber Addition on the Mechanical Properties of Sisal Reinforced Low Density Polyethylene Composites
- 1 March 1997
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Composite Materials
- Vol. 31 (5), 509-527
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002199839703100504
Abstract
This paper presents the evaluation of enhancement in the mechanical properties of short sisal fiber reinforced polyethylene composites by the incorporation of short glass fiber as an intimate mix with sisal. Intimately mixed short glass-sisal hybrid fiber reinforced polyethylene composites (GSRP) were prepared by solution mixing technique. The effects of fiber orientation and alkali treatment on sisal fiber in GSRP were studied. Addition of relatively small volume fraction of glass (0.03) to the sisal reinforced polyethylene matrix (SRP) enhances the tensile strength of longitudinally oriented composites by about 80%. Addition of the same volume fraction of glass to the alkali treated sisal incorporated SRP enhances the tensile strength by more than 90%. The flexural strength of the longitudinally oriented composites was also studied. The incorporation of glass fiber ( V f = 0.03) to SRP enhances the flexural strength by more than 60%. The effect of hybridization on water absorption tendency of the sisal fiber was studied by immersing SRP and GSRP in boiling water for 3 hours. It was observed that water uptake of GSRP was 2 to 4 times less than that of SRP composites. Halpin-Tsai equation for composites was tried for calculating the tensile modulus of longitudinally oriented GSRP.Keywords
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