Mechanical Properties Characterization of The Biodegradable Plastic Made from Composite of HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and Gembolo (Dioscorea bulbifera L.) Starch

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10.2991/snk-18.2018.24How to use a DOI?

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Biodegradable plastic, gembolo starch, HDPE

Abstract

It had been conducted research on characterization the mechanical properties of biodegradable plastic composites from HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and gembolo starch. This study aims to determine the mechanical characteristics of biodegradable plastic made from a mixture of HDPE and gembolo starch. In this study, the variation in HDPE mass ratio with gembolo starch used was 8:2; 7:3; 6:4; 5:5; and 4:6 grams. The characteristics of biodegradable plastics tested were tensile strength, elongation, Young's modulus measured using Autograph instrument. The results showed that the best tensile strength value was obtained on the ratio of HDPE and gembolo starch of 7: 3 namely 0.6006 N / mm2, with the elongation and Young modulus of 10.8167 % and 5.5525 N / mm2, respectively.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yolanda Harnike Putri Wardani
AU  - Suyatno Sutoyo
PY  - 2018/09
DA  - 2018/09
TI  - Mechanical Properties Characterization of The Biodegradable Plastic Made from Composite of HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and Gembolo (Dioscorea bulbifera L.) Starch
BT  - Proceedings of the Seminar Nasional Kimia - National Seminar on Chemistry (SNK 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 99
EP  - 102
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/snk-18.2018.24
DO  - 10.2991/snk-18.2018.24
ID  - HarnikePutriWardani2018/09
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