Effect of nanofiller on flexing mechanism of HDPE/EPR nanocomposite for sport shoe sole application
For this decade, nanocomposite has received huge interest from over a thousand of researchers due to its outstanding properties in wide applications. Nanocomposite of sole shoes has become new development in sport shoes application while no interest from others has been reported. The purpose of t...
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| Language: | English |
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Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland
2015
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/43289/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/43289/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/43289/1/AMR.1115.382_Husniyah.pdf |
| Summary: | For this decade, nanocomposite has received huge interest from over a thousand of
researchers due to its outstanding properties in wide applications. Nanocomposite of sole shoes has
become new development in sport shoes application while no interest from others has been
reported. The purpose of this study is mainly to produce prototype and characterize flexing
mechanism of nanocomposite outsole. The materials used for the outsole protoype were polymer
matrix of high density polyethylene (HDPE) and ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) at ratio of 70:30
by wt% was added by 3 wt% of CNT nanofiller. The HDPE/EPR-CNT nanocomposites were
prepared via single melt blending by using internal mixer and then compression moulded into
outsole shape. The outsole was then gone through electron beam (EB) radiation at 100 kGy/s. The
flexibility of unradiated and radiated nanocomposite outsole were tested by flexing test according to
SATRA TM161 and ISO-17707 standard and fractography of the nanocomposite outsole was
observed visually. EB radiated nanocomposite show high properties which suggesting that greater
count number in flexing test and less void was observed compared to the unradiated nanocomposite. |
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