Influence of MWCNTs integration on Mechanical Behavior of E Glass-Carbon Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Hybrid Nano Composites

摘要

Composite materials are developed by hybridizing in a systematic integration of functionalized multi walled carbon nano tubes by ultrasonic dispersion technique to homogenize the MWCNTs in Epoxy resin 5052 (Matrix), then layed up using Carbon fibers as high modulus and E glass fibers as low modulus fibers in bidirectional twilled oven fabric form as a primary reinforcement and then compared with MWCNTs integration as a secondary reinforcement in a volume fraction of 0.5%, 1.0% and 1.5% of the composites. Post curing of the composites, the laminates were inspected for defects using ultrasonic B-Scan, then to ensure the calculated matrix to reinforcement ratios, the matrix constituent analysis was done by resin digestion method. Composite specimens were then subjected to mechanical testing. It was observed that Nano integration in composites significantly enhances the mechanical properties.....