Physico-Mechanical and Tribological Properties of Glass Fiber based Epoxy Hybrid Natural Composite

Polymeric materials reinforced with synthetic fibers like glass, carbon, and aramid provide advantage of high stiffness and strength to weight ratio as compared to conventional materials like wood, concrete etc. Despite of these favours modern researches are going on in the field of natural composites because of low initial cost and availability of ease. I the light of these the present experimental study aims at learning the physicomechanical and tribological properties of glass fiber based epoxy hybrid composite filled with a natural filler of mustard cake. Hand layout technique is employed for preparing the samples, with varying weight fraction of bi-directional glass fiber (40wt.-%, 60wt.-% and 80wt.-%). The ratio of filler is fixed with/without 10 wt.-%. Specimens were cut from the fabricated laminate according to the ASTM standards for different experiments. The systematic experimentation leads to determination of significant process parameters and material variables that predominantly influence the wear rate. It has been found that wear rate decrease with increasing fiber weight percentage. Mechanical properties of composites are increases with increase of fiber loading. The mechanical and wear behaviour of filled composites is more superior then unfilled composites.