Sisal fibril epoxy composite-a high strength electrical insulating material
Autor: | S. A. R. Hashmi, H.N. Bhargaw, Subhash Nimanpure, Archana Nigrawal, Ajay Naik, Rajnish Kumar |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
Materials science
Polymers and Plastics Composite number 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry Epoxy Dielectric 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Fibril 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences visual_art Ultimate tensile strength Materials Chemistry Ceramics and Composites visual_art.visual_art_medium Dissipation factor Composite material 0210 nano-technology computer Chemical composition SISAL computer.programming_language |
Zdroj: | Polymer Composites. 39:E2175-E2184 |
ISSN: | 0272-8397 |
DOI: | 10.1002/pc.24527 |
Popis: | Environment friendly high strength electrical insulating material was developed using fibrillated sisal and epoxy resin. Coarse sisal fibers were fibrillated into fibrils using mechanical disintegration. Fibrillated fibers provided a high strength, renewable, light weight dielectric variant reinforcement to epoxy resin. Different weight fractions (10–35%) of Agave sisalana fibrils were thoroughly mixed with epoxy resin system to develop composites. Chemical treatment was employed to improve the surface as well as chemical composition of sisal fibril to enhance mechanical strength and electrical insulating properties of composite. Chemical treatment of fibrils improved the tensile strength from 47.4 to 51.99 MPa at 35 wt% loading of sisal fibril in epoxy composite. A few important predictive models namely rule of mixture, Halpin–Tsai, Nielson Chen and Manera model were compared with the experimental values obtained in this present study. Nielson Chan model predicted the experimental data most accurately with an average relative error of 15.82%. Similarly the dissipation factor touched a level of 0.097, thereby indicating good insulation properties of composite. The tests were conducted at lower frequency range to higher frequency range 1–10 kHz and the composite material exhibited stability at high frequency range as compared to low frequency range. POLYM. COMPOS., 2017. © 2017 Society of Plastics Engineers |
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