The Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Technology awarded a master's degree to the student, Zainab Aws Hilal, Department of Materials Engineering / University of Technology for her thesis titled

“Fabrication of Waste Animal Natural Fibers Bio-composite with addition of nano Graphene Particles"

The discussion took place in the postgraduate hall located in Building B within the department on Tuesday, 5/12/2023 at nine o'clock in the morning, and the discussion committee consisted of ladies and Gentlemen

Prof. Dr. Qahtan Adnan Hamad, Chairman.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Hussein Ali, member

Asst. Lec.  Ro’aa Haitham Abdel Rahim, member

Asst. Prof. Dr. Nevin Gamal Abdel Qader, as a member and supervisor

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Mazhar Hashem, as a member and supervisor

In addition, the thesis was scientifically evaluated by Rana Mahdi Saleh/University of Technology/Department of Applied Sciences, and Prof. Dr. Masar Najm Obaid/University of Babylon/College of Materials engineering, and linguistically by M.D. Ali Abdul Karim Mohsen/University of Technology/Department of Materials Engineering.

After the examination committee recorded its comments on the thesis, which covered both explanation and correction, the student's defense of her thesis, and the conclusion of the discussion, the committee convened to evaluate the thesis. They decided to award the student a Master’s degree with a pass grade

Abstract:

This work aims to produce a new type of composite material consist from animal natural fiber for cow hair as reinforcement in epoxy resin matrix filled with graphene nanoplatelet. In this study, each of the Weibull statistics model, mechanical, thermal and morphological properties were examined. The results indicated to increase in mechanical properties, with an increase in fiber reinforcement and filled with graphene nanoplatelet reached twice what the pure sample. But thermal conductivity decreases with increase the fiber concentration and increase with graphene nanoplatelet.