TY - JOUR
AU1 - Abdulrahim, M. Y.
AU2 - Yawas, D. S.
AU3 - Mohammed, R. A.
AU4 - Afolayan, M. O.
AB - Natural fibres are becoming attractive alternatives to traditional high-performance fibres such as glass and carbon fibres for reinforcement in composites in structural applications. In order to produce structural component that will be less expensive and available that lead to the development of banana stem fibres (BSF) and cow horn particles (CHp)/polyester hybrid composites. The correlation of the composites was done using Taguchi method. Taguchi method was successfully used for the optimization of the impact energy of the developed composites. Increase in curing temperature and time raises the impact energy. Optimum conditions were obtained at 4 wt% CHp, 15 wt% BSF, curing temperature (100 °C) and curing time (6 h) with impact energy of 6.38 J/mm2. It has been established that banana stem fibres and cow horn particles can be used to improve the impact energy of polyester composites.
TI - Experimental correlation between process parameters and impact energy of value-added banana stem fibres and cow horn particles/polyester hybrid composites
JF - The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
DO - 10.1007/s00170-020-05972-w
DA - 2020-08-27
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/experimental-correlation-between-process-parameters-and-impact-energy-iyHcPDzkBx
SP - 1701
EP - 1708
VL - 110
IS - 7-8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -