Study of Mechanical and Physical Properties of Palm Fiber Reinforced Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Composite

Budrun Neher, Md. Mahbubur Rahman Bhuiyan, Humayun Kabir, Md. Rakibul Qadir, Md. Abdul Gafur, Farid Ahmed

Department of Physics, Comilla University, Comilla, Bangladesh.
Department of Physics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Department of Physics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department of Physics, Comilla University, Comilla, Bangladesh.
PP and PDC, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

DOI: 10.4236/msa.2014.51006                

Abstract

Palm fiber (PF) reinforced acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) composite matrix was prepared by employing Injection Moulding Machine (IMM). Palm fiber was collected from ten different trees of different age group from Comilla region in Bangladesh. Three sets of samples were prepared for three different wt% (5%, 10% and 20%) of fiber contents. The mechanical (tensile strength, flexural stress, micro hardness, Leeb’s rebound hardness) and physical (bulk density and water absorption) properties were measured. The observed result reveals that the tensile strength (TS) and flexural stress (FS) were decreased with increasing fiber contents in the PF-ABS composites except 10% fiber content.

Keywords

Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene; Composite; Tensile Stress; Flexural Stress; Vicker’s Hardness and Leeb’s Rebound Hardness

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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