scholarly journals Effect of Fiber Content and Silane Treatment on the Mechanical Properties of Recycled Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene Fiber Composites

Chemistry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1258-1270
Author(s):  
Vardaan Chauhan ◽  
Timo Kärki ◽  
Juha Varis

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of fiber content and then silane treatment on the mechanical performance of the natural fiber composites of recycled acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) provided by the automotive sector. Wood and palmyra fibers were used as fillers in 10% and 20% fiber content composites. The fibers were treated with N-(2-Aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane to improve the interfacial adhesion between fibers and polymer matrices. The mechanical properties of the composites were determined by tensile and impact tests. Morphological analysis was later performed using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). According to the experiment results, the tensile and impact strength of both wood and palmyra fibers increase after silane treatment. However, for the low-wood-fiber-content composite, the tensile and impact strength decrease after silane treatment due to the presence of an excess amount of silane relative to fiber content. The addition of wood and palmyra fibers significantly improved the tensile modulus of composite material and further increases slightly after silane treatment. Finally, SEM analysis shows a homogenous mix of fibers and polymer matrices with fewer voids after silane treatment, thereby improving interfacial adhesion.

2014 ◽  
Vol 898 ◽  
pp. 98-101
Author(s):  
Ji Wei Geng ◽  
Ming Yan ◽  
Jin Ping Qu

The Chinese herb residue (CHR) fiber obtained by blasting through a continuous steam explosion device, and recycled acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) were blended to prepare reABS/CHR fiber composites by a vane extruder. Three kinds of thermoplastic elastomers: POE, SEBS and TPU were used to toughen composites. The results of toughening effects, mechanical properties and thermal stability properties show that: there were significant effects of these agents on impact strength; the compatibility not only affects toughening result, but also other properties; the best toughening agent for reABS/CHR fiber composites is TPU.


2015 ◽  
Vol 659 ◽  
pp. 463-467
Author(s):  
Sirirat Wacharawichanant ◽  
Parida Amorncharoen ◽  
Ratiwan Wannasirichoke

The effects of polypropylene-graft-maleic anhydride (PP-g-MA) compatibilizers on the morphology and mechanical properties of polyoxymethylene (POM)/acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) blends were investigated. Two types of compatibilizers, PP-g-MA with maleic anhydride 0.50 wt% (PP-g-MA1) and PP-g-MA with maleic anhydride 1.31 wt% (PP-g-MA2) were used to study the interfacial adhesion of POM and ABS. POM/ABS blends with and without PP-g-MA compatibilizer were prepared by an internal mixer and molded by compression molding. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used to investigate the morphology of ABS phase in POM matrix. The results found that POM/ABS blends clearly demonstrated a two phase separation of dispersed ABS phase and the POM matrix phase, and ABS phase dispersed as spherical domains in POM matrix in a range of ABS 10-30 wt% and the blends containing ABS more than 30 wt% showed the elongated structure of ABS phase. The addition of PP-g-MA could improve the interfacial adhesion of POM/ABS blends due to the domain size of ABS phase decreased after adding PP-g-MA. The mechanical properties showed that the impact strength of POM/ABS blends decreased in a range of 10-20 wt% and did not change after 20 wt%. The addition of PP-g-MA did not change the impact strength of POM/ABS blends. The Young’s modulus of POM/ABS blends increased up to 30 wt% of ABS and then decreased. While the blends showed the decrease of tensile strength and percent strain at break with increasing ABS content. The addition of PP-g-MA increased the tensile strength of POM/ABS blends in a range of 30-40 wt% of ABS. The above results indicated that the morphology had an effect on the mechanical properties of polymer blends.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (61) ◽  
pp. 49143-49152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ningjing Wu ◽  
Zhaoxia Xiu

Silicone-microencapsulated aluminum hypophosphite (SiAHP) improved effectively the flame retardancy and significantly enhanced the notched impact strength of ABS/SiAHP composites.


2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick O. Cisneros-López ◽  
Martín E. González-López ◽  
Aida A. Pérez-Fonseca ◽  
Rubén González-Núñez ◽  
Denis Rodrigue ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 2338-2342 ◽  

This paper focus on Madar and Bauhinia Racemosa fibers has high potential as reinforcing agents in polymer composites. The composites plates were fabricated by hand layup method with varying the fiber weight percentage of 5%,10%,15% and 20% on mechanical and water absorption properties are analyzed. The mechanical properties of such as tensile, flexural and impact properties of madar and Bauhinia Racemosa fiber mat reinforced polyester composites were studied at first time in this work. The tensile, flexural and impact strength of Bauhinia Racemosa fiber mat reinforced polyester composites had proved higher strength performance than the madar fiber mat reinforced polyester composites.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 4840-4845
Author(s):  
Guixin Zhang ◽  
Yanyan Zhang ◽  
Jun Yang ◽  
Shijuan Li ◽  
Weihong Guo

The new wood-plastic nanocomposites (WPC) based on acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) resin was successfully blended with ABS and poplar flour (PF) through a HAAKE rheomix. The mechanical properties of nanocomposites, except for flexural modulus, were reduced after increasing the PF content. SEM photos show the reduction resulting from weak interfacial adhesion between the PF phase and ABS phase. Higher PF content leads to a low thermal stability and a high water absorption ratio. Different coupling agents (CA) were employed to improve the compatibility between PF and ABS. The results suggest that ABS-g-MAH is more effective than POE-g-MAH, EVA and SEBS. Maleic anhydride (MA) was blended in situ with PF and ABS as the reactive compatibilizer and mechanical properties of nanocomposites were improved except impact strength.


2020 ◽  
Vol 833 ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Salina Budin ◽  
Koay Mei Hyie ◽  
Hamid Yussof ◽  
Aulia Ishak ◽  
Rosnani Ginting

Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) is one of the most widely used plastic. The application of ABS increases rapidly in industries recently. The drawback of the increasing demand of ABS is the increment of ABS waste. Huge increment in ABS waste has led to the increasing of environmental pollution. The demand in green technology and sustainability of resources has urged the need of recycling of ABS waste. However, the mechanical properties of the recycled ABS are deteriorated. Hence, this work aims to study the mechanical properties of blend virgin and recycled ABS. The first sample started with 100wt% of virgin ABS. While the second to eleventh samples was a mixing of virgin and recycled ABS at 10wt% incremental recycled ABS. The last sample was prepared using 100wt% of recycled ABS. The results show that the tensile strength of 100wt% of recycled ABS is slightly decreased as compared to 100wt% virgin ABS. Similar trend was observed on traverse rupture strength (TRS) when the TRS for 100wt% of recycled ABS is lower by 8% when compared to 100wt% of virgin ABS. The most significant change is observed on the impact strength. The impact strength for 100wt% of recycled ABS is substantially dropped by 86% as compared to 100wt% of virgin ABS.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
An Hai Thien Phung ◽  
Tai Tan Dang

Artificial stone is composite of unsaturated polyester and calcium carbonate that is mostly synthesized. This study aimed to investigate the effect of additives on shrinkage property of Unsaturated Polyester (UP) and mechanical properties of artificial stone such as flexural strength, impact strength, and hardness. In this paper, we tested effect of additives such as anhydride maleic (AM), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), methyl methacrylate (MMA) and polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) with varying concentrations from 1 – 10 phr under condition process includes 2 phr BPO, 1100C cured temperature and 20 mins cured time


2012 ◽  
Vol 455-456 ◽  
pp. 845-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Juan Bai ◽  
Zhe Wu ◽  
Nan Feng

Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS)/CaCO3 composites were reprocessed under normal conditions. The effects of reprocessing on the degradation of ABS were investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and gel permeation chromatography (GPC). The mechanical properties of the reprocessed materials were measured. In this paper, a method to evaluate the degradation of ABS in ABS/CaCO3 composites by FTIR was described. The results show that within the range of the reprocessing cycles studied, as the number of reprocessing cycles increased, the impact strength of composite was significantly reduced if the content of CaCO3 is lower than 10%, due to the degradation of rubber phase. However, the impact strength was almost unchanged when the content of CaCO3 was higher than 15%.


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