| Study on Physical and Mechanical Properties of Glass Fiber/MWCNT/Epoxy and Glass Fiber/Epoxy Composites |
| Paper ID : 1117-ICNS |
| Authors: |
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saman dehrooyeh *, majid vaseghi, mahmoud sameezadeh, majid sohrabian faculty of mechanical and energy systems engineering, shahid beheshti university, tehran, iran |
| Abstract: |
| The aim of this study is to evaluate the properties of a 4-ply glass fiber/ MWCNT/ epoxy system against the 4-ply glass fiber/ epoxy resin. Using mechanical mixing, sonication and hand lay-up technique, multi walled carbon nano tube (MWCNT) reinforced E-Glass fiber/ epoxy composites were made. The density and tensile properties of the laminated composites mixed with various percentages of MWCNT (0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 vol %) were studied. An increase in density was observed when the amount of carbon nano tube loading was increased from 0.5% to 1.5% in GF/epoxy composites. Incorporation of 0.5vol% and 1vol% of MWCNT has increased tensile strength by 21% and 12.5% and tensile modulus by 22.3% and 9.7% respectively compared to glass fiber/ epoxy composite laminates. Addition of 1.5 vol% of MWCNT results in reduction of the tensile strength and tensile modulus in comparison to glass fiber/epoxy composites because of forming aggregates that acts as stress concentration points in matrix. |
| Keywords: |
| Carbon nanotubes; Hybrid nanocomposite; Glass fiber; Density; tensile strength. |
| Status : Abstract Accepted (Poster Presentation) |