Mechanical property analysis on bamboo-glass fiber reinforced montmorillonite nano composite

• Published in: Materials today : proceedings Vol. 45; pp. 6936 - 6940
• Main Authors: Manoj Prabhakar, M., Joe Patrick Gnanaraj, S., Lenin Allasi, Haiter, Jerin Leno, I., Endro, Seid, Rajesh Kanna, S.K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01-01-2021
• Subjects: Bamboo fiber; Composite; Glass fiber; Mechanical properties; Montmorillonite nano material; Montmorillonite nano material; Mechanical properties; Bamboo fiber; Composite; Glass fiber
• ISSN: 2214-7853; 2214-7853
• DOI: 10.1016/j.matpr.2021.01.392

Hybrid fiber based natural composites are having a leading role in the industrial components in recent years due the abundance availability, higher strength to weight ratio, degradable, lesser cost, etc. So in this research, low modulus bamboo fibers are being hybridized with high modulus glass fibers in the epoxy matrix along with the filler nano material Montmorillonite to form hybrid composite. These developed composite have also been tested for the mechanical properties and found that the results are in the desirable ranges. In this research, further to enhance the mechanical behavior, along with the various ply orientations, order of laminas also changed and analyzed. As the novel approach in this research, Montmorillonite have been used as the filler material to fill the fiber gaps, which enhances the load transmitting strength and the hybrid composite laminates are fabricated with four different lamina orders. In order to interpret the mechanical behavior of the fabricated hybrid composite, the tests such as tensile strength test, impact test and flexural test have also been conducted. From the obtained results, it have been found that the addition of Montmorillonite increases the mechanical strength of the composite to a particular level, glass fiber having better strength than the bamboo fiber and the laminate with alternate glass and bamboo fiber having better strength compared to other laminates.