Tensile and Morphological Properties of Rice Husk Powder Filled Natural Rubber Latex Foam

Polymer - Plastics Technology and Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1524-1529

  Ramasamy, Shamala ^a   Ismail, Hanafi ^a   Munusamy, Yamuna ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF MATERIALS AND MINERAL RESOURCES ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Foam density; Hardness; Natural rubber latex; Rice husk powder; Scanning electron microscopy; Tensile properties

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL BY-PRODUCTS; ELONGATION AT BREAK; FILLER LOADING; FOAM DENSITIES; MICRO-STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; NATURAL RUBBER LATEX; RICE HUSK;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; FILLERS; FOAMED RUBBER; HARDNESS; LATEXES; RUBBER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE PROPERTIES;

LOADING;

EID: 84870918373     PISSN: 03602559     EISSN: 15256111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03602559.2012.715361     Document Type: Article

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