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Molding Method, Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Jute/PLA Injection Molding

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Natural composites have been important materials system due to preservation of earth environments. Natural fibers such as jute, hemp, bagasse and so on are very good candidate of natural composites as reinforcements. On the other hand regarding matrix parts thermosetting polymer and thermoplastic polymer deriver form petrochemical products are not environmental friendly material, even if thermoplastic polymer can be recycled. In order to create fully environmental friendly material (FEFM) biodegradable polymer which can be deriver from natural resources is needed. Therefore poly(lactic acid) (PLA) polymer is very good material for the FEFM. In this paper jute fiber filled PLA resin (jute/PLA) composites was fabricated by injection moldings and mechanical properties were measured. It is believable that industries will have much attention to FEFM, so that injection molding was adopted to fabricate the composites. Long fiber pellet fabricated by pultrusion technique was adopted to prepare jute/PLA pellet. Because it is able to fabricate composite pellets with relative long length fibers for injection molding process, where, jute yarns were continuously pulled and coated with PLA resin. Here two kinds of PLA materials were used including the one with mold releasing agent and the other without it. After pass through a heated die whereby PLA resin impregnates into the jute yarns and sufficient cooling, the impregnated jute yarns were cut into pellets. Then jute/PLA pellets were fed into injection machine to make dumbbell shape specimens. In current study, the effects of temperature of PLA melting temperature i.e. impregnation temperature and the kinds of PLA were focused to get optimum molding condition. The volume fractions of jute fiber in pellet were measured by several measuring method including image analyzing, density measurement and dissolution methods. Additionally, thermal and mechanical properties were investigated. It is found that 250° is much suitable for jute/PLA long fiber pultrusion process because of its less heat degradation of jute, better impregnation, acceptable mechanical property and higher production efficiency. Additionally the jute fibers seem much effective to increase deflection temperature under load, tensile modulus and Izod strength.

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Abbreviations

FEFM:

Fully environmental friendly material

PLA:

Poly(lactic acid)

LFT:

Long fiber pellet fabricated by pultrusion technique

Jute/PLA:

Jute fiber filled PLA resin

DTUL:

Deflection temperature under load

TGA:

Thermogravimetry

DSC:

Differential scanning calorimetry

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  1. College of Textiles, Donghua University, No. 2999, Renmin bei Road, Songjiang Qu, Shanghai, 201620, China

    Yuqiu Yang

  2. Advanced Fibro-Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo-ku, Matsugasaki, Kyoto, 606-8585, Japan

    Masuo Murakami & Hiroyuki Hamada

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Yang, Y., Murakami, M. & Hamada, H. Molding Method, Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Jute/PLA Injection Molding. J Polym Environ 20, 1124–1133 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-012-0565-8

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