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Abstract
The effects of filler loading and size of kenaf fibre on the mechanical properties of kenaf fibre-filled natural rubber latex foam (NRLF) have been studied. The NRLF was prepared by using the Dunlop method. The kenaf fibre was sieved to 97, 144 and 200 µm particle sizes and incorporated into the rubber vulcanizates at 0, 1, 3, 5 and 7 part per hundred rubber fibre contents. Increasing kenaf fibre loading in NRLF resulted in the reduction of tensile strength, elongation at break and recovery percentage but increased in modulus at 100% (M100), compression strength, compression set, hardness and foam density. At the same kenaf fibre loading, smaller size of kenaf fibre-filled NRLF showed higher tensile properties, compression strength, compression set and hardness. Scanning electron microscope demonstrated that as kenaf fibre loading and size increased, a larger pore size of NRLF was formed and this led to tensile strength, M100, compression strength and hardness.
期刊介绍:
Cellular Polymers is concerned primarily with the science of foamed materials, the technology and state of the art for processing and fabricating, the engineering techniques and principles of the machines used to produce them economically, and their applications in varied and wide ranging uses where they are making an increasingly valuable contribution.
Potential problems for the industry are also covered, including fire performance of materials, CFC-replacement technology, recycling and environmental legislation. Reviews of technical and commercial advances in the manufacturing and application technologies are also included.
Cellular Polymers covers these and other related topics and also pays particular attention to the ways in which the science and technology of cellular polymers is being developed throughout the world.