Tensile and Flexural Properties of Sisal Reinforced Unsaturated Polyester Composite: For Furniture Manufacture

摘要：

　　Recently, natural fibers are increasingly replacing synthetic fibers as polymer composite reinforcement due to their benefits of low density, environmental friendly, low cost and high specific mechanical performance.This study aims at manufacturing and characterizing sisal reinforced unsaturated polyester composite.Sisal fibers were sun-dried after extraction and characterized on their strength, elongation and fineness.The composites were manufactured by combination of hand lay-up technique and compression molding by stacking woven sisal fabrics at different stacking sequence (0°, 90°, 90°/0°, + 45°/-45°) but equal number of layers.The tensile and bending strength of the manufactured composite was tested.The results showed that stacking sequence greatly influences the strength properties of the composite.Tensile and bending strength results of 0° stacked composite were 67MPa and 64MPa,respectively.The produced composite was used in the manufacture of tabletop proving that it can replace conventional timber in furniture manufacture.

关键词： Sisal fiber Unsaturated polyester resin Composite Furniture Tensile and bending strength

作者: Anbesaw Muket Adino Getie Ashenafi Gashaw Rotich k.Gideon

作者单位: Textile Engineering, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Et Textile Chemistry, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Ethi

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2018 Sino-Africa International Symposium on Textiles and Apparel (SAISTA2018)(2018中非纺织服装国际论坛)

会议地点: 巴赫达尔

会议语种:英文

页码: 345-351

在线出版日期: 2018-09-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）