Investigation in to Erosive wear Performance Of Hybrid Composites Using Taguchi Approach

摘要

Over the last century, polymers have emerged as one of the most indispensible components used in everyday life, epoxy or poly-epoxide being one such example. Several research efforts have been put to studied the effectiveness of natural fiber based materials on the Erosive wear behavior of epoxy composites, focusing mainly on fibers and their weight percent's within the co mposites. Different types of natural fiber are used to reduce the traditional fiber in composite fabrication due to their innate properties when compared to other materials. A new hybrid composite with combination of traditional and natural fibers reinforced in to epoxy polymer were prepared. Erosion wear behavior of Hybrid composite (silk-jute-glass) was studied using dry silica sand as an erodent. A plan of experiments based on the Taguchi technique w as used to acquire the data in a controlled way. The objective was to investigate the erosion wear resistance of natural fiber over traditional fiber and also the variation of w ear resistance as the silk fiber percentage increases. It was found that as the percentage of silk fiber increases the wear resistance increases. It w as also found that the wear resistance of natural fiber is 90 % of the traditional fibers given..