Effect of Adding Polystyrene into Cocconut Meat Husk Fiber Reinforced Polyester Composites on the Tensile Properties

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to compare the tensile strength between additional polystyrene into coconut meat husk reinforced fiber composite. Composite were produced by using hand layup technique. It is seen that with the additional of polystyrene into the coconut meat husk reinforced polyester composites showed the increment tensile strength value compared to the non added polystyrene which indicates that effective stress transfer between the fiber, matrix and polystyrene .