Affiliations 

  • 1 School of Engineering & Technology, University of Technology, Rajasthan, Jaipur 303903, India
  • 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Garhwal, Srinagar 246174, India
  • 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT Uttarakhand), Srinagar 246174, India
  • 4 Department of Mechanical Engineering, IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Main Campus, Kapurthala 144603, India
  • 5 Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agricultural Science and Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia Bintulu Campus, Bintulu 97000, Malaysia
  • 6 School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia
  • 7 G.L. Bajaj Institute of Technology & Management, Greater Noida 201310, India
  • 8 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Dhanbad 826004, India
  • 9 Civil Engineering Department, Istanbul Esenyurt University, Istanbul 34510, Turkey
  • 10 School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266520, China
Polymers (Basel), 2021 Oct 19;13(20).
PMID: 34685366 DOI: 10.3390/polym13203607

Abstract

In polymer composites, synthetic fibers are primarily used as a chief reinforcing material, with a wide range of applications, and are therefore essential to study. In the present work, we carried out the erosive wear of natural and synthetic fiber-based polymer composites. Glass fiber with jute and Grewia optiva fiber was reinforced in three different polymer resins: epoxy, vinyl ester and polyester. The hand lay-up method was used for the fabrication of composites. L16 orthogonal array of Taguchi method used to identify the most significant parameters (impact velocity, fiber content, and impingement angle) in the analysis of erosive wear. ANOVA analysis revealed that the most influential parameter was in the erosive wear analysis was impact velocity followed by fiber content and impingement angle. It was also observed that polyester-based composites exhibited the highest erosive wear followed by vinyl ester-based composites, and epoxy-based composites showed the lowest erosive wear. From the present study, it may be attributed that the low hardness of the polyester resulting in low resistance against the impact of erodent particles. The SEM analysis furthermore illustrates the mechanism took place during the wear examination of all three types of composites at highest fiber loading. A thorough assessment uncovers brittle fractures in certain regions, implying that a marginal amount of impact forces was also acting on the fabricated samples. The developed fiber-reinforced polymer sandwich composite materials possess excellent biocompatibility, desirable promising properties for prosthetic, orthopaedic, and bone-fracture implant uses.

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