Uji Ketahanan Tarik Tali Serat Gedebok Pisang Raja

Abstract

Raja’s banana fibers have the best tensile endurance between the others. The characteristic, could be used making rope that can be used for binding, attracting, trapping, tethering, hanging and others in accordance with the rope usefulness. The research was aimed to know the endurance of Raja’s banana fiber rope with and without NaOH solution on the rope tensile test. Results of the research indicated that the second, third and fourth twists with and without NaOH 5% during the 2nd hour gave the different results of tensile strength, strain, deformation, elasticity and flexing. The highest result of tensile strength was on the third twist condition (with treatment) i.e. 515,92×105 N/m2 . The highest result of strain was on the third twist condition (with treatment) i.e. 1,98. The highest result of deformation was on the second twist condition (with treatment) i.e. 0,153 m. The highest result of elasticity was on the fourth twist condition (with treatment) i.e. 318,47×105 N/m2 . And the highest result of flexing was on the fourth twist condition (with treatment) i.e. 64%.