Dynamic mechanical characteristics of jute fiber and 304 wire mesh reinforced epoxy composite

Abstract

Adding different reinforcements to the polymer composite is gaining more importance in the manufacturing industries because of their variation in mechanical properties. To satisfy modern industrial requirements, the mono-fiber polymer composites are substituted by hybrid composites in civil and automotive applications. The present work is to develop and investigate the hybrid composite behavior reinforced with AISI 304 (500 µm) wire mesh and jute fiber with epoxy LY556 resin. To analyze the mechanical properties of hybrid composites, two different orientations (45° and 90°) of wire mesh are selected and stacked with jute fiber by hand lay-up method. The wire mesh composite or hybrid composite is subjected to mechanical characterization like tensile, flexural, impact, and interlaminar. Subsequently, the viscoelastic behavior of the wire mesh composite is observed in terms of storage modulus (E′), loss modulus (E″), and damping factor (tan δ) by the dynamic mechanical analyzer (DMS 6100). The fractured surface microstructure of the wire mesh composite is analyzed by scanning electron microscope. The 45° oriented wire mesh composite sample shows better mechanical properties in ultimate tensile strength (20.55 MPa), flexural strength (0.145 kN), percentage of elongation (2.83%), and interlaminar strength (0.120 kN). At the transition region, the peak energy absorption of 0.622 is observed in the 90° oriented wire mesh composite sample at 0.5 Hz frequency.

Investigation of the Acoustic and Mechanical Properties of Homogenous and Hybrid Jute and Luffa Bio Composites

“…Although the main component for both fibers is cellulose, jute and luffa fibers are substantially different materials. It is already reported in the literature that the Young's moduli of the jute and luffa fibers are within 10-30 GPa (Alves et al 2010;Prabu, Rajamurugan, and Thirumurugan 2019) and 0.9-1.8 GPa (Koruk and Genc 2019;Papanicolaou, Psarra, and Anastasiou 2015), respectively. Therefore, the jute composites are stiffer than the luffa composites.…”

“…As mentioned before, there are various methods for mechanical characterization of materials including biomaterials (Arulmurugan et al 2019a(Arulmurugan et al , 2019b(Arulmurugan et al , 2020Koruk, Dreyer, and Singh 2014;Prabu, Rajamurugan, and Thirumurugan 2019). In this study, the mechanical properties of the composite plates are determined via modal tests.…”

“…Various methods have been used for mechanical characterization of biomaterials in the literature (Arulmurugan et al 2019a(Arulmurugan et al , 2019b(Arulmurugan et al , 2020Koruk and Genc 2019;Prabu, Rajamurugan, and Thirumurugan 2019). In addition to classical characterization methods such as tensile testing, experimental modal analysis can also be used for the identification of damping and elastic properties of materials (Koruk and Genc 2019).…”

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