Studies on Treated Sunnhemp and Treated Jute Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Composites

Prof. Ranjit. N. Turukmane; Prof. Dr. V.G.Nadiger; Prof. Arvind. L. Bhongade; Dr. Shashikant. P. Borkar

Studies on Treated Sunnhemp and Treated Jute Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Composites

( Vol-3,Issue-10,October 2016 ) OPEN ACCESS

Author(s):

Prof. Ranjit. N. Turukmane, Prof. Dr. V.G.Nadiger, Prof. Arvind. L. Bhongade, Dr. Shashikant. P. Borkar

Keywords:

Composites, Reinforced, Matrix.

Abstract:

Natural fibre reinforced polymer composites are being worked upon for various engineering applications. Various natural fibres such as Sunnhemp, jute, sisal, palm, coir and banana are used as reinforcements. In this paper, sunnhemp and jute fibres have been used as reinforcement in Epoxy resin matrix. The influence of different volume fraction of the fibres in the composite is studied. It is seen that in case of treated sunnhemp fibre reinforced epoxy composites increase in the fibre volume fraction, the tensile strength , tensile modulus, flexural strength, flexural modulus, impact strength have increased after an initial dip. At 20% of fibre volume fraction. The mechanical properties it can be deduced that sunnhemp fibre can be reliably reinforced with Epoxy resin which may be used various application such as Transportation, Marine, Construction, Furniture etc.