Thermal and mechanical characterization of composite materials from industrial plastic wastes and recycled nylon fibers for floor paving tiles application.

Industrial plastic waste is growing globally at an alarming rate and environmental pollution from traditional landfill disposal and incineration treatments are of great concern. As a strategy to reduce plastic pollution, value-added composite materials from industrial plastic wastes reinforced with recycled nylon fibers for use in floor paving tile applications were developed. This is to address the disadvantages of existing ceramic tiles which are relatively heavy, brittle, and expensive.

Physical and mechanical properties of flamboyant () pod filled polyester composites.

The purpose of this research is to develop new polymeric composite materials from the flamboyant pod (), an agricultural waste, with polyester as a matrix and to investigate their properties and application areas. The flamboyant pod particles of 75 μm were incorporated into the polyester resin with different loadings of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 wt%. The influence of the pod particles on mechanical and morphological properties was determined and investigated.