TENSILE AND IMPACT BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL BY HAND LAY-UP TECHNIQUE

Pothamsetty Kasi V Rao, B. Akhil Babu, A. L. V. N. Gupta

Abstract: Our work mainly focuses on converting waste materials into raw materials and to increase the tensile and impact behavior of fiber reinforced polymer composite. The study has been carried out in view of high lightening advantages of natural fibers over man-made or synthetic fibers. In this work polyester is used as a matrix and corchorous plant fiber i.e. Jute is used as a reinforcing material. Tensile test specimen is made as per ASTM-D638M-89 and Impact test specimen is made as per ASTMD256M-97. Material properties for both tensile strength and impact strength are obtained by considering different weights of reinforced material with matrix phase. In this paper the methodology of preparation of mould and composite using hand lay-up technique was presented.

Keywords: Natural Fiber, Synthetic Fiber, Polyester, Corchorous Plant Fiber, Tensile Test Specimen, Impact Test Specimen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0504038