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Aji, I. S., Zinudin, E. S., Khairul, M. Z., Abdan, K. and S. M. Sapuan
Fig.1: Variation in the tensile properties of hybridized composite
has also shown that lower dosed hybrid is closely interacting with each other. This meant that
the dose applied to the hybrid was not significantly different between 10 and 40 kGy until
about 60 kGy onward, where significant formation of the radicals that underwent subsequence
radical-radical reactions led to increase chemical bonding, leading to greater improvement in
properties, especially that of the hybrid’s modulus. Hybridization and subsequent irradiation
increased the tensile strength and modulus of HDPE to 31 and 185%, respectively, at about
100 kGy.
Fig.2 and Fig.3 show that this close interaction took place within the composite at lower
and higher doses. This must have been the reason why there was a direct proportionality
relationship between the amount of dose and the tensile properties obtained in the hybrid
composite produced. It is clear that there is a tendency for higher tensile properties with the
increase in dose that can be received by this kind of hybrid.
Fig.2: Tensile specimen at 10kGy without cross
linking
Fig.3: Tensile specimen at 100kGy without cross
linking
138 Pertanika J. Sci. & Technol. 21 (1): 283 - 298 (2013)