[This article belongs to Volume - 55, Issue - 01, 2023]
Gongcheng Kexue Yu Jishu/Advanced Engineering Science
Journal ID : AES-26-06-2023-057

Title : MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITE WITH CERAMIC FILLER AS SECONDARY REINFORCEMENT
Sandeep.B *1, Saveena J.M 2, Dr. H.N Divakar 3, Dr. K.S Keerthiprasad 4

Abstract :

The present experimental work gives insight into characterizing the mechanical properties of Synthetic fiber (S-glass) with ceramic filler as Silicon Carbide used as secondary reinforcement with epoxy polymer matrix composites at different filler loading conditions. The ceramic filler as SiC with the s-glass fiber combination is fabricated by adopting hand layup technique, with filler addition of 0%, 2.5%, 5% and 7.5% wt. The physical and mechanical evaluation was done on the samples that were prepared and cut according to ASTM standards, namely density, tensile, impact, ILSS and Shore D hardness. The test results revealed, that with 7.5% wt. of SiC filler addition into the s-glass fiber reinforced epoxy composite, the mechanical abilities of the material system out performed in most of the cases, when compared at the other composites. This indicates, that as the SiC-ceramic filler addition was increased in the composite, the mechanical properties also increased proportionately.