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Silvia Luciana Favaro et al. (2010) studied the chemical, morphological and
mechanical analysis of rice husk/post-consumer polyethylene (PE) composites. PE and rice
husk were chemically modified to improve their compatibility in composite preparation.
They found improved fibre surface adhesion with matrix and improved mechanical
performance compared to pure polymer matrix, on the other hand no benefit is observed in
the tensile strength over the pure PE.
Garcia et al. (2007) used a combination of waste tire rubber and rice husk with
different size particles as raw materials in their research for obtaining new materials by
sintering technique so that environmental problems could be reduced.
Ayswarya et al. (2012) studied the use of RHA for property modification on high
density polyethylene (HDPE). They found and reported that RHA is a valuable reinforcing
material for HDPE and the environmental pollution arising due to RHA can also be
eliminated.
Rout and Satpathy (2012) studied mechanical and tribo-performance of rice-husk
filled glass-epoxy hybrid composites. They found that hardness, tensile modulus and
impact energy of these new class hybrid composites are enhanced with the rice husk as
filler additive whereas a steady decline of tensile and flexural properties are also observed.
Bohlooli et al. (2012) analytically investigated the compressive strength of
geopolymers with seeded fly ash and rice husk bark ash by fuzzy logic modelling. They
found that fuzzy logic can be an alternative approach for evaluating the effect of seeded
mixture of fly ash and rice husk bark ash on compressive strength values of geopolymer
specimens.
Kwon et al. (2013) investigated the flexural properties and dimensional stability of
the sandwich-structured composites comprising the rice husk particles in the core layer and
randomly aligned the wood strands in the face layers. They found that 1040% of the
strands into the face layers of the RH particleboards improved the flexural modulus and
strength.
Ahmad et al. (2012)were performed their research on using of rice husk powder as
reinforcing filler in blends of natural rubber(NR) and high density polyethylene. They
observed that the incorporation of radiated Rice Husk into NR/HDPE blends improved the
mechanical properties tensile stress and modulus and impact strength and hardness.
Mahboobeh Azadi et al. (2011) investigated the influence of the RHA on
different mechanical properties of the cured coatings (wear, hardness, and elongation). The
presence of RHA in epoxy paints can enhance wear resistance, scratch resistance, and
elongation. It seems that this type of filler in epoxy paints increases paint plasticity. The
addition of white ash is better in improving the wear resistance due to the presence of more
silica. Adding 20 wt% black ash to the pure epoxy paint lowers its friction coefficient with
respect to the white RHA. Finally, using this type of filler, which is cheap and abundant in
nature, can modify some mechanical properties of epoxy paints and also reduce air
pollution from burning rice husks. Thus, a green product can be produced in the paint
industry.
S. Mahzan et al. uses natural fibre for studying sound absorption properties. This
study investigates the use of rice-husk waste as the potential element for sound absorption
material of rice-husk reinforced composite. The study of rice husk waste material for
sound absorption purposes has been reported. The optimum percentage of rice husk was
obtained at 25%. The pattern obtained for rice husk was similar to membrane absorber
curves which are predominant at the lower frequencies. Furthermore the peaks value was
obtained at 250Hz. Comparison between virgin Polyurethane (PU) and the optimum
percentage of rice husk (25%) indicated that value of mixture is higher than virgin PU at
low frequency whereas for high frequency the virgin PU is higher. The comparison
between other natural materials also has been done for recycled rubber and wood shavings.
The result demonstrates that rice husk is superior to both materials for range 0-500Hz.
Since, rice husk is available in large amount, the potential for commercialization,
especially for low frequency sound absorbent material is possible.
Reis et al. (2011) studied experimentally the effect of cork and rice husk ash micro
particles fillers on the mechanical properties (flexural resistance, fracture toughness,
impact absorbed energy, elastic and viscous moduli) of polyester based hand moulded
composite was. Filled materials exhibit fragile behaviour and flexure strength much lower
than polyester matrix, and decreasing significantly when the filler content increases from 1
to 5%. The resistance loss is more pronounced for cork powder than for rice husk ash
filler. Fracture toughness is also much lower for the filled composites than for the polymer
matrix. Using cork powder the fracture toughness decreases significantly with filler
content, while for rice husk ash filler a slight increase was observed. Both fillers improve
absorbed impact energy, peaking about 2.5% on filler content. Better improvements were
obtained using rice husk ash powder, reaching about 30%. Both fillers increase glass
transition temperature and the maximum use temperature and also the elastic modulus
compared with observed for the polyester, reaching the modulus a peak for 2.5% of filler
content.
Yussuf et al. (2010) investigated and compared the performances of polylactic acid
(PLA)/kenaf (PLA-K) and PLA/rice husk (PLA-RH) composites in terms of
biodegradability, mechanical and thermal properties. It was found that flexural modulus of
pure PLA was increased drastically when filled with both kenaf and rice husk fibres;
however, the flexural and impact strengths declined. For composites, it was found that
kenaf composite shows better mechanical properties compare to rice husk composite. The
thermal stability of the virgin PLA was decreased by addition of kenaf and rice husk; and
the composite with rice husk fibre showed higher thermal degradation than kenaf
composite. From the results of biodegradability, it was found that addition of natural fibres
slightly improves biodegradability of PLA and kenaf has more significant effect on the
biodegradation rate, which exhibits better performances than rice husk.
Stefani et al. (2005) proposed the use of rice husk as filler for increasing the value
of recycled tire rubber. They observed that the addition of rice husk produces a decrease in
apparent activation energy for low conversions (up to 0.6). For higher conversions this
decrease was not so clearly observed.
Sisir Mantry et al. (2011) fabricated a jute-epoxy composites with reinforcement of
SiC derived from rice husk. They reported that incorporation of fillers modifies the tensile,
flexural and inter-laminar shear strength of the jute epoxy composites. They also
investigated that the presence of particulate fillers (silicon carbide) in these composites
improves their erosion wear resistance.
Y. Arao, S. Yumitori, H. Suzuki, T. Tanaka, K. Tanaka and T. Katayama did a remarkable
work on Mechanical properties of injection-molded carbon fiber/polypropylene
composites hybridized with nanofillers in the year of 2013. In this work the mechanical
properties of CF/PP hybridized with nanofillers were investigated. The strength of the
composites increased with the incorporation of MAPP because of the improvement in the
adhesion properties between fiber and matrix. It has been shown that addition of a small
amount of a nanofiller can improve not only the strength of the composite but also the
elastic modulus. Alumina, silica, and CNT have positive effects on the strength of the
composite, while the addition of clay decreases the mechanical properties. The results of
fiber pull-out tests and the observation of fracture surfaces indicated that the nanofillers
(alumina, silica, and CNT) improve the IFSS of the composite.
In the same year 2013, Samuel Rivallant, Christophe Bouvet and Natthawat
Hongkarnjanaku did a work on Failure analysis of CFRP laminates subjected to
compression after impact. Their work presented a model for the numerical simulation of
impact damage, permanent indentation and compression after impact (CAI) in CFRP
laminates. The same model was used for the formation of damage developing during both
low-velocity/low-energy impact tests and CAI tests. The different impact and CAI
elementary damage types were taken into account, i.e. matrix cracking, fiber failure and
interface delamination. Experimental tests and model results were compared, and that
comparison was used to highlight the laminate failure scenario during residual
compression tests. Finally, the impact energy effect on the residual strength was evaluated
and compared to experimental results.
Ying Zhang, Jie Shen, Qing Li, Long Pang, Quanyuan Zhang, Zushun Xu, Kelvin W.K.
Yeung and Changfeng Yi did a research in 2013 on Synthesis and characterization of
novel hyperbranched polyimides/attapulgite nanocomposites. In this work Novel
hyperbranched polyimides/attapulgite (HBPI/AT) nanocomposites were successfully
synthesized by in situ polymerization. HBPI derived from novel 2,4,6-tri[3-(4aminophenoxy)phenyl]pyridine
dicarboxyphenoxy)phenyl]propane
(TAPP)
and
2,2-bis[4-(3,4-
dianhydride
(BPADA).
4,40-diphenylmethane