Mixture of kapok fiber and gypsum to improve the fire resistant rating of a fire door (experimental)
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| author | Muhammad Akmal Issham |
| author2 | Mohamad Nor Musa, supervisor |
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| spelling | utm-123456789-1036872025-08-21T07:47:37Z Mixture of kapok fiber and gypsum to improve the fire resistant rating of a fire door (experimental) Muhammad Akmal Issham Mohamad Nor Musa, supervisor Mechanical engineering Also available in printed version Fire can be formed when these three elements, hot, oxygen, and combustible materials, are present. It produces heat and light through a chemical process of oxidation reactions that occur rapidly. It is widely known that a human’s life on the Earth cannot be separated from the fire. But we often hear a phrase about the fire: 'friendly when it is small, deadly when it is big’. Based on this expression, we can say that the fire is not only furnishing benefits to humans but it also can destroy property and killed many lives each year. Therefore, a fire protection should be given priority in our daily life, especially the use of fire resistant doors in commercial and office buildings. Kapok, a natural fiber, which has a low thermal conductivity has been selected and examined in this study as a fire-resistance material. The objective of this study was to find the resistance of gypsum when mixed with kapok fiber. The laboratory works involved the preparation and testing of composite samples of gypsum and kapok fiber, which were prepared with different thicknesses, namely 6.4 mm, 9.5 mm, and 12.7 mm. Then composite samples of three different compositions, namely 1000 g of gypsum : 10 g of kapok, 1000 g of gypsum : 20 g of kapok, and 1000 g of gypsum : 30 g of kapok were prepared for each of those thicknesses. All the composite samples were burnt, in accordance to MS 1073 (1996), in a combustion chamber that had been designed and fabricated in Combustion Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The experimental results revealed that the composite sample of 12.7 mm thickness gave the highest fire resistance for all the prescribed compositions while the composite sample of 30 g of kapok fiber produced the highest fire resistance compared to other two compositions. In short, a composite mixture of gypsum and kapok fiber has the potential to be used as a fire-resistance material in manufacturing of fire resistant doors, walls, and ceilings for the building construction sector atiff UTM 101 p. Project Paper (Sarjana Muda Sains Komputer (Perisian Grafik dan Multimedia)) - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2013 2025-04-10T06:54:49Z 2025-04-10T06:54:49Z 2014 Bachelor thesis https://utmik.utm.my/handle/123456789/103687 valet-20161115-115656 vital:92685 Closed Access UTM Complete Unpublished application/pdf Universiti Teknologi Malaysia |
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| title | Mixture of kapok fiber and gypsum to improve the fire resistant rating of a fire door (experimental) |
| title_full | Mixture of kapok fiber and gypsum to improve the fire resistant rating of a fire door (experimental) |
| title_fullStr | Mixture of kapok fiber and gypsum to improve the fire resistant rating of a fire door (experimental) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mixture of kapok fiber and gypsum to improve the fire resistant rating of a fire door (experimental) |
| title_short | Mixture of kapok fiber and gypsum to improve the fire resistant rating of a fire door (experimental) |
| title_sort | mixture of kapok fiber and gypsum to improve the fire resistant rating of a fire door experimental |
| topic | Mechanical engineering |
| url | https://utmik.utm.my/handle/123456789/103687 |
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