Waviness Effect of Fiber on Buckling Behavior of Sisal/Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites Using Experimental Finite Element Method

Sisal fiber-reinforced composites have huge potential applications in many industries. Different defects during the production process of composite may decrease performance these composites. In present work, one important such as waviness sisal fiber has been studied under compressive loading. Two types materials are considered for study. One is polymer matrix and another hybrid i.e carbon nanotube reinforced composite. The straight specimens prepared by using hand lay-up technique. buckling load estimated conducting suitable experiments. Further, Finite Element method effect on estimated. different wavy patterns Full Sine Waviness (FSW) Half (HSW) fiber. position same property also changing (A/λ) ratio from 0.1 to 0.35 amplitude 5 17.5 mm (A) maintaining length (λ) 100mm. study used design natural with because perfectly fibers difficult extract plants.