Development of kenaf-glass reinforced unsaturated polyester hybrid composite for structural applications

By A. Atiqah, M. Maleque, M. Jawaid, M. Iqbal. 2014

288 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/25cde427fb377f107076300230f41a2c93c43278

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In Building and Construction

1. S. Sapuan
2. Y. Swolfs
3. C. Dong
4. L. Gorbatikh
5. M. Jawaid
6. I. Verpoest
7. K. Bilisik

In Mechanical Engineering

1. C. Dong
2. M. Jawaid
3. S. Sapuan
4. L. Gorbatikh
5. Y. Swolfs
6. Z. Leman
7. R. Yahaya
8. S. Sinha Ray

In Polymers and Plastics

1. C. Dong
2. M. Jawaid
3. S. Sapuan
4. L. Gorbatikh
5. Y. Swolfs
6. E. S. Zainudin
7. Z. Leman
8. I. Verpoest

Citations in the corpus

• Effect of fibre orientations on the mechanical properties of kenaf–aramid hybrid composites for spall-liner application (2016, background): “Natural–synthetic fibre hybrid composites are increasingly used in a wide range of applications [8].”
• Mechanical properties of kenaf fibre reinforced polymer composite: A review (2015, unknown): “According to researchers [44], in the case of kenaf–glass (KG) fibres unsaturated polyester hybrid composite fabricated through sheet moulding compound process display higher tensile, flexural and impact strength obtained from treated kenaf fibre.”
• Fibre hybridisation in polymer composites: a review (2014, background): “Investigations of the proper fibre treatments for hybrid composites are common in literature [96, 157, 160-163].”
• Review of natural fibre-reinforced hybrid composites (2018, background): “Atiqah et al. 45 made kenaf/glass reinforced unsaturated polyester (UPE) hybrid composites for structural applications by SMC. Davoodi et al. 46 made hybrid kenaf/glass reinforced epoxy composites for passenger car bumper beam by a modified SMC method.”
• Recent progress on natural fiber hybrid composites for advanced applications: A review (2019, methodology): “Polyester NaOH treated Kenaf/woven E-glass Compression molding [41]”
• Physical and thermal properties of treated sugar palm/glass fibre reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane hybrid composites (2019, methodology): “Next, the SPFs were repeatedly cleaned using distilled water then dried at 25 C for 72 h and oven dried at 60 C for 24 h [6].”