International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD) ISSN(P): 2249–6890; ISSN(E): 2249–8001 Vol. 10, Issue 3, Jun 2020, 1803–1810 © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd.
INFLUENCE OF GLASS FIBER HYBRIDIZATION ON MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SISAL FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL GADDAM SURESH1, C. SURESH2, B. MONIKA3 & C. TRIVENI4 1
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, JNTUA College of Engineering, Kalikiri, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India 2
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ananthalakshmi Institute of Technology and Sciences Anantapaur, Andhra Pradesh, India 3,4
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, PVKK Institute of Technology, Anantapaur, Andhra Pradesh, India
ABSTRACT Natural fibres are used to sustainable alternative material for various engineering application due to their properties combining the natural and artificial fibers leads to achieve the greater properties. In this work, natural fiber sisal and artificial fiber Glass used. composites of sisal (S), sisal/glass (SG) and glass/sisal/glass (GSG) were fabricated by hand layup technique process. The mechanical properties of tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strengthwere evaluated according to ASTM. The result shows that, an increase in E-glass to sisal fiber which leads to increase the properties of tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength to an greater extend.
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like low cost, low weight, biodegradability and environmental friendliness. Hybridization of the composite by
KEYWORDS: Composite; Hybrid Composites; Mechanical Characterization; Sisal Fiber; Glass Fiber
Received: Jun 01, 2020; Accepted: Jun 20, 2020; Published: Jul 01, 2020; Paper Id.: IJMPERDJUN2020165
INTRODUCTION Now a day’s Natural fibers are sustainable alternative material for various engineering application such as automotive, aeronautics, marine and sports industry[1-2]. Generally, Natural fibersare produced from different plant and animals. They have many varieties from plant such as banana, jute, bamboo and kenaf. Sisal fiberis extracted from leaves of alevera and coir extracted from plant of fruit. However, the natural fiber are low cost, low weight, environmentally superior alternative for glass fiber composites and better thermal properties.Many of researchers focus on a natural fiber and proposed to replace synthetic fiber material due to various advantages such as biodegradability, and acceptable specific properties [3-5].Hybrid composite more advanced composite as compared to conventional composites. Hybrid composite was prepared by combination of two of more natural fiber or single natural fiber and synthetic fiber [6]. Researchers studied the effect of glass fiber hybridization with the randomly oriented natural fibers has been analyzed and mechanical properties such as tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength were evaluated.it was found that the addition of two and three layer of glass fiber can improve the tensile strength by a factor of 2.34 and 4.13 respectively. The flexural properties were enhanced on banana–sisal fiber with two layers of glass fibers rather than three layers and the laminate with sisal fiber [7]. The mechanical properties of jute and sisal fiber reinforced epoxy composites treated with sodium hybrid and results found better for composites [8]. The behaviour of hybrid composite reinforced with several types of fibers like jute, pineapple www.tjprc.org
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