INFLUENCE OF WOOD FLOUR ON THE MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES OF POLYETHYLENE

This study suggests that wood flour can be successfully used as filler in HDPE for applications where impact properties of the material are not of prime importance. The cost of the material can be reduced without too much loss of elastic modulus, thus not affecting the usefulness of the material for various end uses. Potential end uses include moulded furnitures, domestic hollow ware, handles of various tools, etc. The hardness of HDPE is improved with the use of wood flour filler. Wood flour of fine particle size is preferable to the coarse particle wood flour for incorporation with HDPE.