Study on mechanical characteristics of woven cotton/bamboo hybrid reinforced composite laminates

• Published in: Journal of materials research and technology Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 718 - 726
• Main Authors: Aruchamy, Karthik, Pavayee Subramani, Sampath, Palaniappan, Sathish Kumar, Sethuraman, Balu, Velu Kaliyannan, Gobinath
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01-01-2020; Elsevier
• Subjects: Bamboo fabric; Epoxy; Fractrographic analysis; Laminates; Mechanical properties; Woven cotton; Mechanical properties; Woven cotton; Laminates; Epoxy; Fractrographic analysis; Bamboo fabric
• ISSN: 2238-7854
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2019.11.013

In this study, two fabrics namely cotton/cotton woven fabric having cotton yarn in both warp and weft direction; and cotton/bamboo woven fabric with cotton yarn (warp direction) and bamboo yarn (weft direction) were selected. Compression moulding method has been used to fabricate cotton/cotton and cotton/bamboo woven fabric reinforced composites with epoxy resin as a matrix material. The mechanical properties of cotton/cotton and cotton/bamboo reinforced composites had been compared under five different fiber loading conditions (30, 35, 40, 45 and 50wt.%) and the fractured morphology was analyzed using scanning electron microscope. It was noted that cotton/bamboo reinforced composite with 45wt.% fiber loading exhibited the best mechanical properties namely tensile, flexural, impact, compression, and inter laminar shear stress (ILSS), due to its weft direction of bamboo yarn.