Moisture absorption bahaviour of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites

In engineering practice, moisture absorption test is generally used for quality control purposes and to measure the degradation of the quality for the composite materials. The objectives of this study are to investigate the value of Fickian diffusivity constant, moisture equilibrium content and corr...

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Main Authors: Leman, Zulkiflle, Salit, Mohd Sapuan, Aaisa, Mohamad Saifol, Md Abdul Maleque, Megat Ahmad, Megat Mohamad Hamdan
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Published: Elsevier 2008
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spelling my.upm.eprints.156892015-10-05T08:16:48Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15689/ Moisture absorption bahaviour of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites Leman, Zulkiflle Salit, Mohd Sapuan Aaisa, Mohamad Saifol Md Abdul Maleque, Megat Ahmad, Megat Mohamad Hamdan In engineering practice, moisture absorption test is generally used for quality control purposes and to measure the degradation of the quality for the composite materials. The objectives of this study are to investigate the value of Fickian diffusivity constant, moisture equilibrium content and correction factor for the natural fiber composites. Tests were carried out on composite plates, which was a combination of sugar palm fiber and epoxy resins and two different fiber compositions have been chosen which were 10% and 20% by weight. Pure epoxy plates have been used for the control measures. The specimens were oven dried for 60 h in an air-circulating oven operated with 108 °C before being immersed in the constant temperature water bath, which the distilled water was set at 40 °C for the moisture absorption behavior test for 33 days. From this study, plates with 20% fiber loading possessed the highest amount of moisture prior to the moisture absorption behavior test, which is 0.93%. In moisture absorption behavior test, the corrected value of Fickian diffusivity constant for the 20% fiber loading is 3.76 × 10−7 mm2/s, which is the highest among other composites. It is shown that, for composite plates that contain higher fiber composition, the moisture absorption rate is even higher. Elsevier 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15689/1/Moisture%20absorption%20bahaviour%20of%20sugar%20palm%20fibre%20reinforced%20epoxy%20composites.pdf Leman, Zulkiflle and Salit, Mohd Sapuan and Aaisa, Mohamad Saifol and Md Abdul Maleque, and Megat Ahmad, Megat Mohamad Hamdan (2008) Moisture absorption bahaviour of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites. Materials and Design, 29 (8). pp. 1666-1670. ISSN 0261-3069; ESSN: 1873-4197 10.1016/j.matdes.2007.11.004 English
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description In engineering practice, moisture absorption test is generally used for quality control purposes and to measure the degradation of the quality for the composite materials. The objectives of this study are to investigate the value of Fickian diffusivity constant, moisture equilibrium content and correction factor for the natural fiber composites. Tests were carried out on composite plates, which was a combination of sugar palm fiber and epoxy resins and two different fiber compositions have been chosen which were 10% and 20% by weight. Pure epoxy plates have been used for the control measures. The specimens were oven dried for 60 h in an air-circulating oven operated with 108 °C before being immersed in the constant temperature water bath, which the distilled water was set at 40 °C for the moisture absorption behavior test for 33 days. From this study, plates with 20% fiber loading possessed the highest amount of moisture prior to the moisture absorption behavior test, which is 0.93%. In moisture absorption behavior test, the corrected value of Fickian diffusivity constant for the 20% fiber loading is 3.76 × 10−7 mm2/s, which is the highest among other composites. It is shown that, for composite plates that contain higher fiber composition, the moisture absorption rate is even higher.
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author Leman, Zulkiflle
Salit, Mohd Sapuan
Aaisa, Mohamad Saifol
Md Abdul Maleque,
Megat Ahmad, Megat Mohamad Hamdan
spellingShingle Leman, Zulkiflle
Salit, Mohd Sapuan
Aaisa, Mohamad Saifol
Md Abdul Maleque,
Megat Ahmad, Megat Mohamad Hamdan
Moisture absorption bahaviour of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites
author_facet Leman, Zulkiflle
Salit, Mohd Sapuan
Aaisa, Mohamad Saifol
Md Abdul Maleque,
Megat Ahmad, Megat Mohamad Hamdan
author_sort Leman, Zulkiflle
title Moisture absorption bahaviour of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites
title_short Moisture absorption bahaviour of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites
title_full Moisture absorption bahaviour of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites
title_fullStr Moisture absorption bahaviour of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites
title_full_unstemmed Moisture absorption bahaviour of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites
title_sort moisture absorption bahaviour of sugar palm fibre reinforced epoxy composites
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2008
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15689/1/Moisture%20absorption%20bahaviour%20of%20sugar%20palm%20fibre%20reinforced%20epoxy%20composites.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15689/
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