Balsam H. Abed, Ali A. Battawi, Abdul Wahab H. Khuder
Abstract
The use of composite materials has expanded in industrial applications around the world, reinforcing composites with waste materials like
chicken feather is one of the effective ways to solve environmental concerns compared to traditional methods, as it is considered one of the
renewable and inexpensive methods, in addition to its presence in abundance. The main added feature of composite materials over classic
materials are the light weight. This paper investigates the effect of immersion media for a polyester composite reinforced with chicken feather
fillers to enhance the creep characteristic. The composite was manufactured using a hand-layup process. The samples were produced by
varying the weight ratios of fibre loading (0 %, 0.2 %, 0.4 %, 0.6 %, and 0.8 %) and immersed in three different media (KCl (salt media),
NaOH (alkali media) and HNO3 (acid media)). The creep samples were tested according to ASTM standards. The results show that chicken
feather-reinforced composites immersed in various media have probable applications because of their superior mechanical properties over
non-reinforced composites.
Publication Date
4/20/2022
Publisher
Strojniški vestnik - Journal of Mechanical Engineering
د.عبدالوهاب حسن خضر | Dr. Abdulwahab Hassan Khuder | 4597