A FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY MODEL TO APPRAISE WATER ABSORPTION PROCESS PARAMETERS IN COCOA POD HUSK COMPOSITE

Isaac T Abiola, ,Department Of Mechanical Engineering, University Of Lagos, Lagos ,Sunday A Oke

doi:10.30572/2018/kje/120207

Abstract

Water absorption characteristics of composites are crucial to robust composite design with integrity and long service lives. In the literature, scholars have evaluated the water absorption properties of cocoa pod husk composites but reports regarding their uncertainty and imprecision are missing. In this article, cocoa pod husk particulate reinforced composite material was analyzed for uncertainty and imprecision using the fuzzy analytic process to rank and select the important parameters of the water absorption process.

Highlights

In marine-oriented composites, water absorption tests are used to analyze the integrity of the composites regarding their mechanical, wear and corrosive properties before full-scale manufacturing (Karthick et al, 2018; Saxena and Gupta, 2018; Aydemir et al, 2019; Kusmono et al, 2020)
COMPARISON OF THE PRESENT STUDY WITH THE AHP METHOD This study introduces a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process as an intervention tool to identify the strength of the parameters regarding cocoa pod husk composites tested through water absorption process experiments
In the current study, six input parameters of water absorption during tests carried out on cocoa pod husk composite were examined for ranking and selection using the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process with the geometric mean feature

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Introduction

In marine-oriented composites, water absorption tests are used to analyze the integrity of the composites regarding their mechanical, wear and corrosive properties before full-scale manufacturing (Karthick et al, 2018; Saxena and Gupta, 2018; Aydemir et al, 2019; Kusmono et al, 2020). Since it is challenging to eradicate error the aim must be to evaluate it and lessen it to a suitable value in the context of taking measurements Arising from this argument, the novelty of this article is to suggest a new method to water absorption process parametric evaluation to establish the uncertainty in the evaluation of the key parameters of water absorption for a collected data from the laboratory experiment on cocoa pod husk composites. Chun et al (2017) examined the rheological characteristics of polypropylene/cocoa pod husk composites and considered the following attributes – the influence of processing parameter, modification of content by maheated propylene treatment agent addition, and filler composition and their association with torque rheological attributes. Apart from particulate loading, there are other parameters, including particulate weight, initial weight, the weight of the matrix, weight gained after 150 days and rate of water absorption that influence the water absorption behaviour of the composite

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