Influence of fibre pretreatments on characteristics of green fabric materials

2020 ◽  
pp. 096739112094346 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Vinayagamoorthy

The use of natural fibres as composite reinforcements is inevitable in view of developing a sustainable environment. When a natural fibre is extracted from a plant or ground or animal, they are prone to contain impurities and other unwanted substances. By removing these unwanted substances and by enhancing the strengths of the fibres, the reinforcements become predominant to carry the loads in a composite material and thus help the composite to acquire major mechanical properties. Hence, pretreatment methods are adopted for green fibres and it includes a series of chemical treatment, drying, heating in a furnace, and so on. These treatments help to enhance the surface roughness of the fibre, and thus, it increases the bonding strength with the surrounding matrix. The present study gives a clear picture of various pretreatment methods made in different research and their effect on the properties of the composite materials.

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Lesław Kyzioł ◽  
Katarzyna Panasiuk ◽  
Grzegorz Hajdukiewicz ◽  
Krzysztof Dudzik

Due to the unique properties of polymer composites, these materials are used in many industries, including shipbuilding (hulls of boats, yachts, motorboats, cutters, ship and cooling doors, pontoons and floats, torpedo tubes and missiles, protective shields, antenna masts, radar shields, and antennas, etc.). Modern measurement methods and tools allow to determine the properties of the composite material, already during its design. The article presents the use of the method of acoustic emission and Kolmogorov-Sinai (K-S) metric entropy to determine the mechanical properties of composites. The tested materials were polyester-glass laminate without additives and with a 10% content of polyester-glass waste. The changes taking place in the composite material during loading were visualized using a piezoelectric sensor used in the acoustic emission method. Thanks to the analysis of the RMS parameter (root mean square of the acoustic emission signal), it is possible to determine the range of stresses at which significant changes occur in the material in terms of its use as a construction material. In the K-S entropy method, an important measuring tool is the extensometer, namely the displacement sensor built into it. The results obtained during the static tensile test with the use of an extensometer allow them to be used to calculate the K-S metric entropy. Many materials, including composite materials, do not have a yield point. In principle, there are no methods for determining the transition of a material from elastic to plastic phase. The authors showed that, with the use of a modern testing machine and very high-quality instrumentation to record measurement data using the Kolmogorov-Sinai (K-S) metric entropy method and the acoustic emission (AE) method, it is possible to determine the material transition from elastic to plastic phase. Determining the yield strength of composite materials is extremely important information when designing a structure.


2012 ◽  
Vol 496 ◽  
pp. 281-284
Author(s):  
Wen Wen Liu ◽  
Zhi Wang ◽  
Yun Hai Du ◽  
Xian Zhong Xu ◽  
Da Quan Liu ◽  
...  

An improved accurate speckle projection method is used for study the mechanical properties of the composite material film in the paper. A system for deformation measurement is developed with the telecentric lenses, in which such conventional lens’ disadvantages such as lens distortion and perspective error will be diminished. Experiments are performed to validate the availability and reliability of the calibration method. The system can also be used to measure the dynamic deformation and then results are also given.


2012 ◽  
pp. 189-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Petrovic ◽  
Darko Ljubic ◽  
Marina Stamenovic ◽  
Ivana Dimic ◽  
Slavisa Putic

The significance of composite materials and their applications are mainly due to their good properties. This imposes the need for their recycling, thus extending their lifetime. Once used composite material will be disposed as a waste at the end of it service life. After recycling, this kind of waste can be used as raw materials for the production of same material, which raises their applicability. This indicates a great importance of recycling as a method of the renowal of composite materials. This study represents a contribution to the field of mechanical properties of the recycled composite materials. The tension mechanical properties (tensile strength and modulus of elasticity) of once used and disposed glass-epoxy composite material were compared before and after the recycling. The obtained results from mechanical tests confirmed that the applied recycling method was suitable for glass-epoxy composite materials. In respect to the tensile strength and modulus of elasticity it can be further assessed the possibility of use of recycled glass-epoxy composite materials.


SINERGI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Muhamad Fitri ◽  
Shahruddin Mahzan ◽  
Imam Hidayat ◽  
Nurato Nurato

The development of composite materials is increasingly widespread, which require superior mechanical properties. From many studies, it is found that the mechanical properties of composite materials are influenced by various factors, including the reinforcement content, both in the form of fibers and particle powder. However, those studies have not investigated the effect of the hardener weight fraction on the mechanical properties of resin composite materials. Even though its function as a hardener is likely to affect its mechanical properties, it might obtain the optimum composition of the reinforcing content and hardener fraction to get the specific mechanical properties. This study examines the effect of hardener weight fraction combined with fiber powder content on mechanical properties of EPR-174 epoxy resin matrix composite and determines the optimum of Them. The research was conducted by testing a sample of composite matrix resin material reinforced with coconut fiber powder. The Powder content was made in 3 levels, i.e.: 6%, 8%, and 10%. While the hardener fraction of resin was made in 3 levels, i.e.: 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6. The test results showed that pure resin had the lowest impact strength of 1.37 kJ/m2. The specimen with a fiber powder content of 6% has the highest impact strength i.e.: 4.92 kJ/m2. The hardener fraction of 0.5 has the highest impact strength i.e.: 4.55 kJ/m2. The fiber powder content of 8% produced the highest shear strength i.e.: 1.00 MPa. Meanwhile, the hardener fraction of 0.6 has the highest shear strength i.e.: 2.03 MPa.


2021 ◽  
Vol 889 ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Norie A. Akeel ◽  
Vinod Kumar ◽  
Omar S. Zaroog

This research Investigates the new composite materials are fabricated of two or more materials raised. The fibers material from the sources of natural recycled materials provides certain benefits above synthetic strengthening material given that very less cost, equivalent strength, less density, and the slightest discarded difficulties. In the current experiments, silk and fiber-reinforced epoxy composite material is fabricated and the mechanical properties for the composite materials are assessed. New composite materials samples with the dissimilar fiber weight ratio were made utilizing the compression Molding processes with the pressure of 150 pa at a temperature of 80 °C. All samples were exposed to the mechanical test like a tensile test, impact loading, flexural hardness, and microscopy. The performing results are the maximum stress is 33.4MPa, elastic modulus for the new composite material is 1380 MPa, and hardness value is 20.64 Hv for the material resistance to scratch, SEM analysis of the microstructure of new composite materials with different angles of layers that are more strength use in industrial applications.


2015 ◽  
Vol 651-653 ◽  
pp. 713-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Merklein ◽  
Raoul Plettke ◽  
Daniel Junker ◽  
Adam Schaub ◽  
Bhrigu Ahuja

The quality of additive manufactured parts however depends pretty much on the workers experience to control porosity, layer linkage and surface roughness. To analyze the robustness of the Laser Beam Melting (LBM) process a Round Robin test was made in which specimens from four institutes from different countries were tested and compared. For the tests each institute built a set of specimens out of stainless steel 1.4540. The aim of this work is to analyze the influence of the process parameters on the mechanical properties. The results show that there is a high potential for additive manufacturing but also a lot of further research is necessary to optimize this technology.


2013 ◽  
Vol 550 ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Kamal Ait Tahar ◽  
R. Bahar

Currently, the composite materials make important great strides, considering their high mechanical properties. The studies relating to the conceptual, technical aspect and modeling of their mechanical behavior are more than desirable. The mechanical properties of the composite material depend on several factors as the nature of fibers, the fiber/matrix ratio, compatibility, homogeneity... In this study, we present the results of an experimental analysis of the behavior of the composite material, under a static and a dynamic loading. The composite material is composed respectively of the glass and metal fiber reinforcement. A various dimensions of the mesh are considering. The resin used is polyester Resow 55 E. The dynamic test ( Knoop test) is carried out on various specimens made up of an polyester resin RESOW 55 E reinforced with varied powder nature. It makes it possible to measure the hardness of composite materials. The analysis of the results shows clearly that the mechanical properties are strongly influenced by the dimensions of the elementary mesh of the fiber grid reinforcement. Based on experimental results, a Weibull modulus has been established for each specimen.


2018 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 02011
Author(s):  
Vithal Rao Chavan ◽  
K. R. Dinesh ◽  
K. Veeresh ◽  
Veerabhadrappa Algur ◽  
Manjunath Shettar

Composite materials for the most part depicted as the mixes of two or more materials that outcome in the unmistakable properties than that of guard materials. Fibre strengthened plastics have been all around utilized for get-together flying machine and transport key parts as a delayed consequence of their specific mechanical and physical properties, for example, high particular quality and high particular robustness. Another pertinent application for fibre maintained polymeric composites (particularly glass fibre strengthened plastics) is in the electronic business, in which they are utilized for passing on printed wiring sheets. The utilization of polymer composite materials is winding up being powerfully essential. The present work delineates the change and mechanical portrayal of new polymer composites including glass fibre fortress, epoxy and maple cellulose fibre. The starting late made composites are delineated for their mechanical properties. The composite spreads were set up by utilizing hand layup framework. The experiments were conducted on and studied the effect of post curing on hybrid composites. The result reveals that the samples only with natural fibre have more promising results compared with synthetic fibre. The synthetic fibres get wrinkled due to post curing were as no such visuals in the natural fibres.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamdi LAOUICI ◽  
Asma Benkhelladi ◽  
Ali Bouchoucha

Abstract The main objective and the originality of this work are to create a hybrid-natural fibre composite by the RMS method. Hybrid composites are manufactured by combining two or more dissimilar kinds of fibre in a single matrix. In the first section, Response Surface Methodology (RSM) using a Box-Behnken experimental design and the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) are applied to investigate the effects of the type of fibres, chemical treatment, volume fraction and treatment time on the mechanical properties (ultimate tensile strength and Young’s modulus) in the tensile quasi-static loading when used two resins namely, epoxy and polyester. In the studied range, statistical analysis of the results showed that selected variables had a significant effect on the mechanical properties, except the treatment time that has a very weak significance effect on the mechanical properties. Then, to maximize the mechanical properties, the optimal conditions coded by RSM were found: the type of fibres (X 1 ) of [-0.28 and -0.33], the chemical treatment (X 2 ) of -1, the volume fraction of fibre (X 3 ) of 1 and the treatment duration (X 4 ) of [-0.97 and -1] for epoxy resin matrix. Similarly, when used the polyester resin matrix; the type of fibres (X 1 ) of -0.26, the chemical treatment (X 2 ) of -1, the volume fraction (X 3 ) of 0.99 and the sinking time (X 4 ) of [-0.94 and -0.93]. The obtained optimum parameters were confirmed experimentally in the second section


Kevlar fibres are para aramid fibres rather than Meta-Aramid structure of Nomex. These fibres have high tensile strength, tensile modulus and heat resistance .Kevlar is about five times lighter than steel in terms of the same tensile strength. In fact, it is the strongest textile fibre available today. It is therefore used in Radial tyres, Conveyor belts, Aircraft parts and mainly used in Ballistics and Frictional products. The aim of this investigation is to increase the mechanical properties of composite material of Kevlar fibre. The Kevlar fibre is reinforced with the banana fibre,which is a Natural Fibre and Aluminium Mesh using Epoxy resin. The Mechanical Properties of Newly formed Composite material using Kevlar Fibre is improved and find its application in a higher position while comparing to the Kevlar Fibre


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