Tensile and Flexural Properties of Casuarina equisetifolia Unsaturated Polyester Composites

Abstract:

This study is to determine the effects of tensile and flexural testing on the C.equisetifolia composite at different loading from 10 % to 50 % weight loading (wt%). The results for all composite samples on tensile strength and tensile modulus decreasing as the weight loadings of C.equisetifolia increases. However, the result from tensile modulus was not significant when the C.equisetifolia weight loadings increase in the composite. In addition, the result obtained from flexural modulus and strength at 20 % of C.equisetifolia weight loading, increased to 3.147GPa and 3.25 MPa respectively, while when C.equisetifolia weight loadings increase the results showed a decrease.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 812)
• Pages: 231-235
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.812.231
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Borhan Nurulaini, Ahmad Zafir Romli, Mohd Hanafiah Abidin
• Keywords: Casuarina equisetifolia, Flexural, Tensile, Unsaturated Polyester Resin

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