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Investigation of Wood Flour Size, Aspect Ratios, and Injection Molding Temperature on Mechanical Properties of Wood Flour/Polyethylene Composites
In the present research, wood flour reinforced polyethylene polymer composites with a coupling agent were prepared by injection molding. The effects of wood flour size, aspect ratios, and mold injection temperature on the composites’ mechanical properties were investigated. For the preparation of th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8235768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34202938 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14123406 |
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author | Golmakani, Mohammad E. Wiczenbach, Tomasz Malikan, Mohammad Aliakbari, Reza Eremeyev, Victor A. |
author_facet | Golmakani, Mohammad E. Wiczenbach, Tomasz Malikan, Mohammad Aliakbari, Reza Eremeyev, Victor A. |
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description | In the present research, wood flour reinforced polyethylene polymer composites with a coupling agent were prepared by injection molding. The effects of wood flour size, aspect ratios, and mold injection temperature on the composites’ mechanical properties were investigated. For the preparation of the polymer composites, five different formulations were created. The mechanical properties including tensile strength and the modulus, flexural strength and the modulus, and impact energy were measured. To investigate the changes in the properties resulting from different compositions, mechanical static and impact testing was performed. The obtained results indicate that by reducing the flour size, the tensile strength and modulus, flexural strength, and impact energy were reduced. In contrast, the flexural modulus increased. Furthermore, with the increment of injection molding temperature, the tensile strength and the modulus and the impact energy of the specimens were reduced. On the other hand, the flexural strength and the modulus increased. Thus, an optimized amount of injection molding temperature can provide improvements in the mechanical properties of the composite. |
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spelling | pubmed-82357682021-06-27 Investigation of Wood Flour Size, Aspect Ratios, and Injection Molding Temperature on Mechanical Properties of Wood Flour/Polyethylene Composites Golmakani, Mohammad E. Wiczenbach, Tomasz Malikan, Mohammad Aliakbari, Reza Eremeyev, Victor A. Materials (Basel) Article In the present research, wood flour reinforced polyethylene polymer composites with a coupling agent were prepared by injection molding. The effects of wood flour size, aspect ratios, and mold injection temperature on the composites’ mechanical properties were investigated. For the preparation of the polymer composites, five different formulations were created. The mechanical properties including tensile strength and the modulus, flexural strength and the modulus, and impact energy were measured. To investigate the changes in the properties resulting from different compositions, mechanical static and impact testing was performed. The obtained results indicate that by reducing the flour size, the tensile strength and modulus, flexural strength, and impact energy were reduced. In contrast, the flexural modulus increased. Furthermore, with the increment of injection molding temperature, the tensile strength and the modulus and the impact energy of the specimens were reduced. On the other hand, the flexural strength and the modulus increased. Thus, an optimized amount of injection molding temperature can provide improvements in the mechanical properties of the composite. MDPI 2021-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8235768/ /pubmed/34202938 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14123406 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Golmakani, Mohammad E. Wiczenbach, Tomasz Malikan, Mohammad Aliakbari, Reza Eremeyev, Victor A. Investigation of Wood Flour Size, Aspect Ratios, and Injection Molding Temperature on Mechanical Properties of Wood Flour/Polyethylene Composites |
title | Investigation of Wood Flour Size, Aspect Ratios, and Injection Molding Temperature on Mechanical Properties of Wood Flour/Polyethylene Composites |
title_full | Investigation of Wood Flour Size, Aspect Ratios, and Injection Molding Temperature on Mechanical Properties of Wood Flour/Polyethylene Composites |
title_fullStr | Investigation of Wood Flour Size, Aspect Ratios, and Injection Molding Temperature on Mechanical Properties of Wood Flour/Polyethylene Composites |
title_full_unstemmed | Investigation of Wood Flour Size, Aspect Ratios, and Injection Molding Temperature on Mechanical Properties of Wood Flour/Polyethylene Composites |
title_short | Investigation of Wood Flour Size, Aspect Ratios, and Injection Molding Temperature on Mechanical Properties of Wood Flour/Polyethylene Composites |
title_sort | investigation of wood flour size, aspect ratios, and injection molding temperature on mechanical properties of wood flour/polyethylene composites |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8235768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34202938 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14123406 |
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