relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/10118/ title: An environmental friendly model for materials substitution in a fiberglass reinforced polyester composite creator: Axinte, E. creator: Wang, Y. creator: Abdul-Rani, A.M. creator: Aliyu, A.A.A. creator: Andronic, O. creator: Stegaru, C. creator: Bofu, A. description: In this work is presented an empirical developed model for materials substitution: An empirical established quantity of a fiberglass reinforced polyester composite (basic material) was substituted successively with two natural cheaper materials (natural wastes) resulted from other manufacturing processes. The experiment is purely empirical and no theory is developed in this work. The main scope is to observe if the new and cheapest materials can successful replace the much expensive basic materials in some industrial applications. The microstructures and some physical and mechanical properties of the new materials were studied by reporting to the basic material. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. publisher: EDP Sciences date: 2018 type: Conference or Workshop Item type: PeerReviewed identifier: Axinte, E. and Wang, Y. and Abdul-Rani, A.M. and Aliyu, A.A.A. and Andronic, O. and Stegaru, C. and Bofu, A. (2018) An environmental friendly model for materials substitution in a fiberglass reinforced polyester composite. In: UNSPECIFIED. relation: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053218639&doi=10.1051%2fmatecconf%2f201817804013&partnerID=40&md5=0352e0e8c73b99bf27047ca4528618a0 relation: 10.1051/matecconf/201817804013 identifier: 10.1051/matecconf/201817804013