Mechanical and Acoustic Properties of Jute Fiber-Reinforced Polypropylene Composites

Abstract

Chemical fibers such as glass fiber and aramid cover a large proportion of sound-absorbing composite materials on the current commercial market. These materials possess superior mechanical properties but have the disadvantages of high production costs and energy consumption and difficult recovery and degradation. In this paper, jute fiber and polypropylene were selected as raw materials, and a series of jute fiber-reinforced polypropylene composite materials were prepared by a mixing-hot-pressing process. The acoustic and mechanical performances of the composites with different fiber contents and fiber residue ratios were discussed. The results showed that the sound absorption coefficient values increased with the increasing fiber content and decreasing residual gum ratio. The mechanical properties varied inversely with the residual gum rate. With the increase of fiber content, the tensile and bending strengths first increased and then decreased. Therefore, the jute fiber-reinforced polypropylene composites can possess favorable sound absorption performance with no mechanical property penalty by adjusting the parameters properly, demonstrating that the composite materials have promising applications in the acoustic field.

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