Experimental Investigations on the Influence of Adding Phoenix Dactylifera L. as a Powder to Carbon Based Composites Mechanical Properties


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Məmmədova S.

Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Mechanics, no.1, pp.124-136, 2025 (Scopus)

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Article history: Received 14 April 2025 Received in revised form 17 May 2025 Accepted 26 May 2025 Available online 30 June 2025 In the last few years' huge demand on some materials with high strength and associated relatively low specific weight has become very critical due to a wide range of industrial applications, so the core idea of the research paper is using phoenix dactylifera L. (Zahdee local name) seeds as a powder in producing altered composite materials in connection with carbon fiber, epoxy resin, and hardener, so the two adopted mixing ratios were 10% wt. and 40% wt., therefore, three composites materials were under investigation, they are denoted as the traditional (T), the first altered (A1), and the second altered (A2) composites. Final results showed that maximum tensile strength for the traditional composite, first altered, and second altered composites were 3600, 3763.8, and 4419 MPa respectively with increment of 4.55% and 22.7%, and regarding maximum breaking force test they were 46 KN, 47.9 KN, and 57 KN respectively with the gained enhancement of 4.13% and 23.91%. final results of Shore D hardness were 68, 70, and 74 respectively and the associated improvement were 2.941% and 8.823% so final recommendation is using these two modified composites in some applications that are requiring high strength to weight ratios safely.