Effect of Coconut Fillers on Hybrid Coconut Kevlar Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composites
Journal Title: Carbon - Science and Technology - Year 2015, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
This project focuses on the conversion of naturally available coconut fibers and shells into a useful composite. In addition to it, some mechanical properties of the resultant composite is determined and also the effect of coconut shell fillers on the composite is also investigated. The few portion of the composite is incorporated with synthetic Kevlar fiber, thus the coconut fiber is hybridized to enhance the mechanical properties of coconut. In this work two types of composite is fabricate, kevelar-coconut fibre (kc) composite and kevelar-coconut fibre coconut shell filler (kccsf) composite. Coconut fibers have low weight and considerable properties among the natural fibers, while coconut fillers have a good ductile and impact property. The natural fibers and fillers are treated with Na-OH to make it free of organic impurities. Epoxy resin is used as the polymer matrix. Two composite are produced one with fillers and the other without the fillers using compression molding method. Mechanical properties like tensile strength, flexural strength and water absorption tests are done with ASTM standard. It is observed that that the addition of filler materials improves the adhesiveness of the fibers leading to the increase in the above mentioned properties. The density of the composite is also low hence the strength to weight ratio is very high. The water absorption test also showed that the resultant composite had a small adhesion to water and absorption of water.
Authors and Affiliations
S. P. Jani, A. Senthil Kumar, A. Adamkhan, Nithin, Rajakumar
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