Mechanical Property Evaluation of Palm/Glass Sandwiched Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite in Comparison with few natural composites

1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Aerospace Engineering

航空航天工程

Dhas, Edwin Raja^1 ; Pradeep, P.^1

Department of Automobile Engineering, Noorul Islam University, Kumaracoil, Tamil Nadu, India^1

关键词: Fiber reinforced polymer composites;    Fiber treatment;    Mechanical property evaluation;    Nano-fillers;    Natural composites;    palm-stalk;    Polymer composite;    Potassium permanganate;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/247/1/012010/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/247/1/012010

学科分类：航空航天科学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Natural fibers available plenty can be used as reinforcements in development of eco friendly polymer composites. The less utilized palm leaf stalk fibers sandwiched with artificial glass fibers was researched in this work to have a better reinforcement in preparing a green composite. The commercially available polyester resin blend with coconut shell filler in nano form was used as matrix to sandwich these composites. Naturally available Fibers of palm leaf stalk, coconut leaf stalk, raffia and oil palm were extracted and treated with potassium permanganate solution which enhances the properties. For experimentation four different plates were fabricated using these fibers adopting hand lay-up method. These sandwiched composite plates are further machined to obtain ASTM standards Specimens which are mechanically tested as per standards. Experimental results reveal that the alkali treated palm leaf stalk fiber based polymer composite shows appreciable results than the others. Hence the developed composite can be recommended for fabrication of automobile parts.