Boopathy Govindarajan

Mechanical and metallurgical properties of hybrid composite material

• Authors Details :  
• Karthi V,  
• Marimuthu K,  
• Boopathy G,  
• Ramanan N

Journal title : Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

Publisher : Springer Singapore

Online ISSN : 2195-4364

Page Number : 387-392

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Tremendous growth has been incorporated in the field of composite materials in the current scenario where the engineering applications are highly demandable. Currently composites are being used to replace conventional metallic materials in a wide range of industries including aerospace, defense, aircraft, and textile which require structural materials with high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios. Also natural fiber composites are currently replacing synthetic fiber composites of different applications in various engineering industries due to their low cost and eco-friendly in nature. In this work, twisted kenaf, and twisted kevlar (aramid fibers) have combined together to enhance the mechanical properties and also to improve high impact resistance with less contribution of kevlar which is very high in cost categorized next to carbon fibers. Here, the hybrid composites (natural and aramid) are done by using hand layup method, and various mechanical properties have been investigated. Also, the morphological analysis is done to observe the internal structure of the tested composite. It is observed that hybrid composite has high strength with minimum contribution of kevlar fibers.

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3631-1_36

Article Subject Details

• Engineering
• Materials
• Materials Science
• Mechanical Engineering
• Research

Article Keywords Details

• Eco-friendly fiber
• Fracture surfaces
• Hand layup method
• Hybrid composite

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