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Improved mechanical properties of natural-synthetic hybrid composites

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Abstract

In Recent times, agriculture residue resembles sugarcane bagasse attracted the attention of researchers as it is considered as a type of a reinforcement for polymeric composites used in industrial area. This study is an attempt to utilize sugarcane bagasse (natural fiber) reinforcement hybridized with glass fiber (synthetic fiber) one to fabricate new types of hybrid composites. To obtain the optimum mechanical properties, six different layering sequence with different fibers amounts were fabricated via hand lay-up method and then compression molding was applied. The tensile, impact, flexural and hardness behavior were compared. Scanning electron microscopy was used to adapt to analyze the hybrid natural composite specimens' damage. Results revealed that the tensile, impact, flexural and hardness properties of sugarcane bagasse/polyester composites can be enhanced by its hybridization with glass fiber reinforcement. Different Layering configurations and the relative fiber amounts have noticeable impacts on the mechanical properties. The advantages of the hybridization of reinforcements in this work are the low price besides the light weight with comparable mechanical properties. Consequently, the recommended hybrid composites can be utilized in moderate load applications. Moreover, the suitable selection of the amounts of fibers and stacking sequence produces fabricated hybrid composites attaining property profiles which are close to glass fiber/polyester composites in terms of specific properties.

DOI

10.21608/eijest.2021.58084.1039

Keywords

Hybrid composites, Mechanical Properties, Sugarcane bagasse and glass fiber, impact, hardness

Authors

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Abd El-baky

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

production and mechaical engineering department

Email

dr.marwa2013@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0000-0003-0241-4816

First Name

Mona

Last Name

Megahed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Mechanical Design and Production Engineering Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

monawafa6@gmail.com

City

zagazig

Orcid

-

First Name

Hend

Last Name

El-saqqa

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Mechanical Design and Production Engineering Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

eng.hend.saqqa@gmail.com

City

zagazig

Orcid

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First Name

Amal

Last Name

Alshorbagy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Mechanical Design and Production Engineering Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

alshorbagy62@gmail.com

City

zagazig

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Volume

34

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

24601

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2021-01-16

Publish Date

2021-06-01

Page Start

58

Page End

64

Print ISSN

1687-8493

Online ISSN

2682-3640

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https://eijest.journals.ekb.eg/article_160543.html

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https://eijest.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=160543

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1,348

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Publication Title

The Egyptian International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Technology

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https://eijest.journals.ekb.eg/

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Improved mechanical properties of natural-synthetic hybrid composites

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Created At

23 Jan 2023