SISAL

About: SISAL is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1878 publications have been published within this topic receiving 55528 citations.

Mechanical and degradation properties of natural fiber reinforced PLA composites: Jute, sisal, and elephant grass

Abstract: An experimental study has been carried out to investigate and characterize the properties of elephant grass fiber reinforced fully biodegradable poly lactic acid (PLA) composites. The composites were prepared with various weight fractions of untreated and treated fibers in PLA matrix using injection moulding technique. The tensile strength of PLA composite with treated elephant grass at 20% fiber loading was 18.14% and 24% higher than that of treated jute/PLA composite and plain PLA, respectively. While the flexural strength of treated elephant grass/PLA composite at same fiber loading was 4% and 22% higher than that of treated sisal composite and plain PLA, respectively. The impact strength of composites with untreated elephant grass, sisal and jute fibers were 129.5%, 111.5% and 22.3%, respectively higher when compared with plain PLA. The water absorption rate increased in all the composites as the fiber content increased and the absorption rate reduced with successive alkali treatment on the fibers. The thermal stability of the composite had been reduced with successive alkali treatments as evident from the TGA analysis. The percentage weight loss in all the composites was linearly increasing with number of days of soil burial. The degradation was high in composite with untreated fibers at highest weight fraction. Using enzymatic environment, the degradation was much faster compared to soil burial. Significant effect of surface modification was evident during observing surface morphology of tensile fractured and soil degraded surfaces of the composites using SEM. POLYM. COMPOS., 2016. © 2016 Society of Plastics Engineers

Novel Eco-Friendly Biocomposites: Biofiber Reinforced Biodegradable Polyester Amide Composites—Fabrication and Properties Evaluation:

Abstract: Lignocellulosic natural fibers like sisal and pineapple leaf fiber (PALF) can be incorporated in polymers based on biodegradable polyester amide matrix, BAK 1095 for achieving desired properties and texture in the resulting biocomposites. But high level of moisture absorption, poor wettability and insufficient adhesion between untreated fiber and the polymer matrix led to debonding with age. In order to improve the above qualities, various surface treatments of sisal fiber like mercerization, cyanoethylation, acetylation, bleaching and vinyl monomer (acrylonitrile) grafting are carried out which results in improved mechanical performance of sisal-BAK composites. Mechanical properties like tensile and flexural strength are optimum at a fiber loading of 50 wt%. Among all modifications, alkali treatment and acetylation result in improved properties of the composites. Alkali treated sisal composite shows about 20% increase in tensile strength and acetylated sisal composite shows about 14% increase in flexural...

Assessing Mechanical Properties of Natural Fibre Reinforced Composites for Engineering Applications

Abstract: Mechanical properties of ukam, banana, sisal, coconut, hemp and e-glass fibre reinforced laminates were evaluated to assess the possibility of using it as new material in engineering applications. Samples were fabricated by the hand lay-up process (30:70 fibre and matrix ratio by weight) and the properties evaluated using the INSTRON material testing system. The mechanical properties were tested and showed that glass laminate has the maximum tensile strength of 63 MPa, bending strength of 0.5 MPa, compressive strength of 37.75 MPa and the impact strength of 17.82 J/m2. The ukam plant fibre laminate has the maximum tensile strength of 16.25 MPa and the impact strength of 9.8J/m among the natural fibres; the sisal laminate has the maximum compressive strength of 42 MPa and maximum bending strength of 0.0036 MPa among the natural fibres. Results indicated that natural fibres are of interest for low-cost engineering applications and can compete with artificial glass fibres (E-glass fibre) when a high stiffness per unit weight is desirable. Results also indicated that future research towards significant improvements in tensile and impact strength of these types of composites should focus on the optimisation of fibre strength rather than interfacial bond strength.