Abstract

This study about laminated bamboo strip with epoxy composite can very useful in a lot of way such as replace the use of plastic because plastic is generated from petroleum extract that is not unlimited and will be depleted very soon, this bamboo strip epoxy composite or its similar experiments may prove to replace plastic in this upcoming future. In this study, the bamboo strip reinforced with epoxy was processed through hand lay-out method. BMB strips are combined with epoxy for a total sample thickness of 3mm. This study is performed using the impact test that is charpy (ASTMD-6110) and izod (ASTMD-256). The 0, 60 and 90 degree of laminated bamboo strip epoxy composite with two types of load 7 kg and 14 kg has been tested. It is found that the 0 degree specimen charpy test give the best value as 5.4 Joule energy absorbtion for 14 kg load. While for the izod test, the best composition is 0 degree with 3.62 Joule energy absorbtion for 7 kg and 14 kg load. It is shown that when the degree of bamboo laminate configuration increases the impact absorbtion will be decrease. The result also shown that, when the load is increase the impact also increases.

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