The Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) is used for several industrial purposes where it is required to exhibit good Flexural behavior. The flexural strength of composite is very essential property to make it as a good structural component. In the present work Glass Fiber/Epoxy resin composite laminate of six layer is modelled with the help of catia software. The Finite Element Analysis for Flexural Strength was also studied with the help of FEA software ANSYS to validate the tensile, compression and impact results with that of FEA software.
Modificationof Halloysite nano clay has been done using 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane in the presence of distilled water as solvent media. Untreated and modified nano clay was characterized by Powder X-ray diffractometer (PXRD), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR). Functionalization of Halloysite nano clay is also strongly affected the morphological parameters and enabling the application in epoxy nano composite. However, the influence of modified clay concentration on the mechanical properties of epoxy/nanoclay composites, with different concentrations (2%, 3%, 4% and 5%) of nano clay in the epoxy resin was investigated. Experimental results showed that the mechanical properties of epoxy were improved upto 4 wt% of HNP’s, evidently because of the loading of modified clay. The tensile strength, tensile Modulus, flexural strength, flexural modulusand fracture toughness of the nanocomposites increased by 13%, 17%, 9%, 14%and 27% respectivelythis demonstrated that the composites were strengthened.
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