Experimental evaluation on Mechanical Properties of Natural Fiber Polymer Composites with Human Hair

Balachandar, M.; Ramnath, B. Vijaya; Kumar, Sangeetha Ashok; Sankar, Govindarajan

doi:10.1016/j.matpr.2019.05.228

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“…Human hair greatly improved the flexural, tensile and impact strengths [22]. The strength of a resin composite with bamboo and sisal fibers was significantly enhanced by the addition of human hair fibers [23]. Waste human hair fiber was used to form a reinforced polypropylene matrix composite.…”

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The influence of human hair on kenaf and Grewia fiber-based hybrid natural composite material: an experimental study

Boopathi¹,

Balasubramani²,

R³

et al. 2021

Funct. Compos. Struct.

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The demand for natural composite products is continuously increasing to make various industrial and commercial products to protect the environment. In this paper, the Hybrid Plant Fiber composite (HPFC) is produced using 64 wt.% of the resin matrix and 36 wt.% of natural fibers (Kenaf, Grewia, and Human hair) by hand layup moulding method. The influences of natural fiber’s weight on tensile, flexural, and impact strengths were investigated by the simplex lattice method. It was revealed that the percentage of contribution of Kenaf and Human hair fibers is higher on Tensile strength, Flexural, and Impact strengths than Grewia fiber. The optimum weight percentage of fibers: 13.5 wt.% of Kenaf, 15.3 wt. % of Human hair and 7.2 wt.% of Grewia of fibers weights have been used to produce desirable mechanical strengths of HPFC. The mechanical properties of HPFC have been compared to HPFC without Human hair. Tensile, flexural, and impact strength of HPFC is 17.95%, 11.1%, and 19.79% higher than the HPFC without Human hair. The predicted optimum HPFC is recommended to make commercial products for fulfilling consumer demand.

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The influence of human hair on kenaf and Grewia fiber-based hybrid natural composite material: an experimental study

Boopathi¹,

Balasubramani²,

R³

et al. 2021

Funct. Compos. Struct.

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“…Looking through the literature, it is obvious that there are studies that investigate the use of denim wastes [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] in polymer composite constructions. There are, however, only a few investigations on polymer composites reinforced with human hair [42][43][44][45][46][47], and none on waste pantyhosereinforced composite structures. In one of these studies, Zonatti et al (2015) produced various composites using different thermoset resins (epoxy, polyester orthophthalic, and polyurethane) and recycled denim wastes.…”

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The Effect of Various Textile Wastes on the Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials

Sezgin

2023

Tekstil Ve Konfeksiyon

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As technology advances and people's needs rise, the amount of waste produced rises in tandem with increased productivity in every industry. In this study, mechanical properties of hybrid composite structures made from recycled textile waste (denim waste, human hair, and pantyhose waste) are compared to those of an E-glass plain-woven fabric reinforced composite structure (Charpy impact strength, drop-weight impact strength, tensile strength, and flexural strength). The vacuum-assisted resin transfer method is employed as the production method, with epoxy resin as the chosen matrix material. Except for tensile strength, the obtained results suggest that the mechanical properties of textile waste and E-glass fabric reinforced hybrid composite constructions can compete with those of pure E-glass fabric reinforced sample.

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“…They found that flexural strength decreased when the loading of fiber increased in the composite. Balachandar et al [ 22 ] treated hair fiber with a solution of 7% hydrogen peroxide to incorporate them in an epoxy resin, the results showed an increase in the tensile strength. Sanchez et al [ 23 ] used keratin fibers from the tannery industry, aluminium trihydroxide and poly(lactic acid) as a matrix.…”

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Hydrophobization of hair to improve the interfacial adhesion between hair and high‐density polyethylene

Enriquez

Patiño‐Herrera

Catarino-Centeno

et al. 2022

Polymer Engineering & Sci

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Concerned about environmental pollution, and aware of the comfort that polyethylene provides for daily human life, this work sought to replace a percentage of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) with human or bovine hair. Hair is natural, abundant, light weight, non-toxic, and disposed of as garbage. The main disadvantage of natural composites is the interfacial adhesion. To increase the interfacial adhesion between hair and HDPE, stearic acid or oleic acid was chemically anchored on the hair surface, which leads to an improved contact angle hysteresis and hydrophobicity. Dynamic-mechanical properties of the composites were investigated focusing on the type of carboxylic acid used (stearic or oleic acid), hair length, hair type (human or bovine) and amount of hair used in the composite. Taking 40 C as a reference, using 15% of hair with a length of 1 ± 0.15 mm, the highest storage modulus value was obtained with HDPE with human hair modified with oleic acid, exceeding the value of the storage modulus of HDPE by 67.64%. Increasing storage modulus on composites indicates of interfacial interaction and chemical affinity improvement between hair and polyethylene.

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Experimental evaluation on Mechanical Properties of Natural Fiber Polymer Composites with Human Hair

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

The influence of human hair on kenaf and Grewia fiber-based hybrid natural composite material: an experimental study

The influence of human hair on kenaf and Grewia fiber-based hybrid natural composite material: an experimental study

The Effect of Various Textile Wastes on the Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials

Hydrophobization of hair to improve the interfacial adhesion between hair and high‐density polyethylene

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