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COMPOSITE INTERFACES
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 59-70Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09276440.2012.688454
Keywords
composites; coir fiber; silk fibers; UV radiation; polypropylene; mechanical properties
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Coir/silk fiber-reinforced polypropylene (PP) based unidirectional composites (40 wt.%) were manufactured by compression molding. Coir/silk fibers and PP sheets were treated with ultraviolet radiation at different intensities and then composites were fabricated. It was found that mechanical properties of irradiated silk/irradiated PP composites were found to increase significantly compared to the untreated ones and even higher than that of irradiated coir/irradiated PP composites. Soil degradation tests indicated that irradiated coir/irradiated PP composites significantly lost much of its mechanical properties, but irradiated silk/irradiated PP composites retained their strength of its original integrity. Scanning electron microscopy and water uptake of both types of composites were also investigated.
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