Study of tribological and properties of hybrid composite material e-glass/epoxy with carbon powder.

Composite materials play important role in many industrial applications. Researchers are working on fabrication of new composite materials to enhance the applicability of these materials. Chopped strand mat glass fibre reinforced polymer composites is widely used in many industrial applications particularly in the automotive industry due to advantages such as low weight, ease of processing, price and noise suppression., The objective of the present work is to analyse mechanical and wear behaviour of chopped strand mat E-glass fiber, reinforced in epoxy matrix with carbon powder as filler. Three different types of composites are fabricated using 10% carbon, 20%carbon and 30% carbon with epoxy resin and hardener. The epoxy resin and hardener are mixed in 10:1 weight ratio. The present work shows that incorporation of carbon filler into E-glass fiber epoxy reinforced composites modifies the hardness compressive and wear properties of the composites when compared with unfilled E-glass epoxy composite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]