Experimental Investigation of Date seed and Neem Powder Reinforced Natural Fiber Composites
Natural fillers have received great attention among researchers due their its light weight, high strength, degradability, and eco-friendly behavior. This work is focused on developing a laminate of date palm seed powder and neem gum powder reinforced epoxy resin. Epoxy resin is an excellent thermose...
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| author | Dinesh DHANABALAN Rajasekar RATHANASAMY Vijayakumar VEDIAPPAN Nandana RAGHURAJ Pavithra KATHIRESAN Thirumurugan JEYAKUMAR Prakashraj MUTHAIYA |
| author_facet | Dinesh DHANABALAN Rajasekar RATHANASAMY Vijayakumar VEDIAPPAN Nandana RAGHURAJ Pavithra KATHIRESAN Thirumurugan JEYAKUMAR Prakashraj MUTHAIYA |
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| description | Natural fillers have received great attention among researchers due their its light weight, high strength, degradability, and eco-friendly behavior. This work is focused on developing a laminate of date palm seed powder and neem gum powder reinforced epoxy resin. Epoxy resin is an excellent thermoset polymer with anoutstanding cost to performance ratio. Date palm seeds have highly competitive properties in improving the mechanical and thermal properties of composites by their good adherence to polymer matrix. Neem gum powder is used as a binder in increasing ratios of 0 %, 10 %, 15 %, 20 %, 25 %, and 30 % to test their strength in different compositions. Date seed powder has been reinforced in decreasing weight percent as 30 %, 25 %, 20 %, 15 %, 10 %, 5 %, and 0 %. The specimens prepared through the compression moulding technique were subjected to various mechanical tests like a tensile test, flexural test, and impact test as per the ASTM standards. Fractography analysis using FESEM (Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy) and FT-IR(Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy) test have determined the surface characteristics and chemical composition of the samples. The result shows that, by adding neem gum powder in increasing quantities the mechanical properties like tensile and flexural decreases. However, it does not affect the impact strength of the material. A detailed study of their behavior is discussed in this work. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3509ec1fb72d4c17999ba5b56d11a95b2024-04-15T11:29:21ZengKaunas University of TechnologyMedžiagotyra1392-13202029-72892024-04-0110.5755/j02.ms.3403339287Experimental Investigation of Date seed and Neem Powder Reinforced Natural Fiber CompositesDinesh DHANABALAN0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5952-4077Rajasekar RATHANASAMY1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6539-1466Vijayakumar VEDIAPPAN2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7827-2036Nandana RAGHURAJ3https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0328-8090Pavithra KATHIRESAN4https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7317-0632Thirumurugan JEYAKUMAR5https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3759-2210Prakashraj MUTHAIYA6https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0517-9905Bannari Amman Institute of TechnologyKongu Engineering CollegeBannari Amman Institute of Technology Bannari Amman Institute of Technology Bannari Amman Institute of Technology Bannari Amman Institute of Technology Bannari Amman Institute of Technology Natural fillers have received great attention among researchers due their its light weight, high strength, degradability, and eco-friendly behavior. This work is focused on developing a laminate of date palm seed powder and neem gum powder reinforced epoxy resin. Epoxy resin is an excellent thermoset polymer with anoutstanding cost to performance ratio. Date palm seeds have highly competitive properties in improving the mechanical and thermal properties of composites by their good adherence to polymer matrix. Neem gum powder is used as a binder in increasing ratios of 0 %, 10 %, 15 %, 20 %, 25 %, and 30 % to test their strength in different compositions. Date seed powder has been reinforced in decreasing weight percent as 30 %, 25 %, 20 %, 15 %, 10 %, 5 %, and 0 %. The specimens prepared through the compression moulding technique were subjected to various mechanical tests like a tensile test, flexural test, and impact test as per the ASTM standards. Fractography analysis using FESEM (Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy) and FT-IR(Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy) test have determined the surface characteristics and chemical composition of the samples. The result shows that, by adding neem gum powder in increasing quantities the mechanical properties like tensile and flexural decreases. However, it does not affect the impact strength of the material. A detailed study of their behavior is discussed in this work.https://matsc.ktu.lt/index.php/MatSc/article/view/34033dates seed powderneem gumepoxy resinpolymer filler |
| spellingShingle | Dinesh DHANABALAN Rajasekar RATHANASAMY Vijayakumar VEDIAPPAN Nandana RAGHURAJ Pavithra KATHIRESAN Thirumurugan JEYAKUMAR Prakashraj MUTHAIYA Experimental Investigation of Date seed and Neem Powder Reinforced Natural Fiber Composites Medžiagotyra dates seed powder neem gum epoxy resin polymer filler |
| title | Experimental Investigation of Date seed and Neem Powder Reinforced Natural Fiber Composites |
| title_full | Experimental Investigation of Date seed and Neem Powder Reinforced Natural Fiber Composites |
| title_fullStr | Experimental Investigation of Date seed and Neem Powder Reinforced Natural Fiber Composites |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experimental Investigation of Date seed and Neem Powder Reinforced Natural Fiber Composites |
| title_short | Experimental Investigation of Date seed and Neem Powder Reinforced Natural Fiber Composites |
| title_sort | experimental investigation of date seed and neem powder reinforced natural fiber composites |
| topic | dates seed powder neem gum epoxy resin polymer filler |
| url | https://matsc.ktu.lt/index.php/MatSc/article/view/34033 |
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