Elastic and electrical properties of graphite and talc filler reinforced polypropylene (PP) composites

Afroze, S., Kabir, H., Rahman, M.M.ORCID: 0000-0002-6778-7931, Kabir, M.A., Ahmed, F., Hossain, M.A. and Gafur, M.A. (2012) Elastic and electrical properties of graphite and talc filler reinforced polypropylene (PP) composites. International Journal of Basics and Applied Sciences (IJBAS-IJENS), 12 (5). pp. 13-16.

Abstract

Graphite filler reinforced polypropylene (PP) composites and talc filler reinforced (PP) composites were prepared by compression molding at 160 ºC. Mechanical and electrical properties were studied. The tensile strength of the composites decreases with the increase of filler addition and also with the increase of wt.% of filler. But, a slight improvement of the Young's modulus of the filaments reinforced with different wt.% of filler is observed. It was found that the Bulk density of test materials increased with the fillers content. Capacitance decreases with the increase of both frequency and voltage which suggest good electrical properties of PP-graphite composites and PP-talc composites. All of these results indicated that PP-graphite composites are better than the PP-talc composites.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publisher:	IJENS Publisher
Copyright:	© October 2012 IJENS
URI:	http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/56362

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