A Study On the effect of Surface treatment on the Physical and Mechanical properties of date-palm stem liber embedded epoxy composites

5th National Conference on Processing and Characterization of Materials

Tripathy, Satchidananda^1 ; Dehury, Janaki^1 ; Mishra, Debasmita^1

Department of Mechanical Engineering, VSSUT, Burla, Odisha

768018, India^1

关键词: Engineering applications;    Epoxy composite;    Hybrid composites;    Natural fiber reinforced;    Overall properties;    Physical and mechanical properties;    Production cost;    Water absorption rates;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/115/1/012036/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/115/1/012036

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites are being used frequently for variety of engineering applications due to many of their advantages like ease of availability, low density, low production cost and good mechanical properties but natural fibers are more or less hydrophilic in nature. Therefore, an investigation has been carried out to make better utilization of a class of natural fiber that is date palm stem fiber, for making a wide range of products. Attempts have been made in this research work to study the effect of fiber loading on the physical, mechanical and water absorption behaviour of treated and untreated short fiber based epoxy composites. Composites of various compositions of different amounts of fiber loading are fabricated by simple hand lay-up technique. It has been observed that there is a significant effect of surface treatment of fibers on the overall properties of composites. Further enhancement of properties with lower water absorption rate was attained with glass fiber-epoxy based hybrid composites.