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Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Wood-Plastic Composites from Iron Wood Flour and Recycled Polypropylene Foam
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Tajan, Monchai Luang, Klong |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | In this work some of the important properties of experimentally manufactured wood-plastic composites (WPC) were determined. Specimen having 30% particle of Iron wood (Xylia Xylocarpa) was mixed with recycled polypropylene foam (RPPF) and two different additives, glycerol as a plasticizer and maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene homopolymer (MAPP) which is a compatibilizer. The thermal and mechanical properties of the composites were analyzed and compared with those of non-additive composites. Compared with RPPF, Iron wood/RPPF composites had higher melting and crystallization temperature, but much lower crystallinity level. Their thermal stability was lower than RPPF due to the degradation of the wood flour. The experimental results revealed that addition of the wood flour increased the tensile modulus, but decreased the values of the tensile strength and elongation at break of the composites. The uses of plasticizer and compatibilizer have been shown to influence on the thermal and mechanical properties of the composites. The results indicate that both glycerol and MAPP improved the compatibility of the Iron wood flour and RPPF in the composites, lead to the good properties determined for these materials. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.material.chula.ac.th/Journal/v18-2-2/53-56%20TAJAN.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
