Tensile Properties of Ridge Gourd/Phenolic Composites and Glass/Ridge Gourd/Phenolic Hybrid Composites

Abstract

Ridge gourd/phenolic and glass/ridge gourd/phenolic hybrid composites were prepared using resol resin PF-108 as the matrix and the bilayered vegetable fabric ridge gourd as the reinforcement with and without alkali treatment and glass fabric as a co-reinforcement. The natural bilayer fabric of ridge gourd vegetable belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family was treated with 2% aqueous NaOH solution. The tensile strength, modulus and percent elongation values of untreated and alkali treated ridge gourd fabric reinforced resol type (PF-108) composites and glass, ridge gourd fabric reinforced resol type (PF-108) hybrid composites in the absence and presence of two coupling agents were also determined.

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ridge gourd Luffa acutangula resol resin glass fabric hybrid composites tensile properties coupling agent.

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