Mechanical, wear thermal behaviour of Hemp fibre/egg shell particles reinforced epoxy resin bio composite

The aim of this present work is to examine the mechanical, tribological and thermal behaviour of hemp fibre reinforced egg shell epoxy polymer composites. Experiments are carried out to study the effect of fiber and filler volume percentage on mechanical, wear and thermal behaviour of epoxy based polymer composites. The volume of fibre and filler is varied by 30%, 40% 50% and 0.25%, 0.5% 1.0%. The specimens are fabricated by using hand layup technique. The specimens are expurgated according to ASTM standards. The mechanical test such as hardness, tensile, impact and flexural strength are evaluated and abrasive wear behaviour of the specimen was investigated using pin-on-disc machine. The thermal stability was evaluated using a thermo gravimetric analyzer. The effect of hemp fibre and filler were examined under different mechanical and thermal conditions. The mechanical results show that the addition of fibre increased the load bearing characters of epoxy resin whereas additions of egg shell filler increased thermal stability of composite.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author