Experimental Study on Tribological Characteristics of E-waste filled Fibre Reinforced Plastics

Authors(5) :-Lokesh K S , Karthik B.Y, Avinash C.G, Ganesh Kamath, Samson Lobo

Lightweight materials play vital role in structural applications where strength and surface characteristics influence greatly on selecting choice of materials. The favourable properties like light weight and high strength, sufficient ductility, hardness, brittleness, toughness forms familiar group while opting type of materials suggesting for particular applications. In addition to this the performance of fibre reinforced plastics is increased to greater extent by adding filler materials in to the matrix material ,unlike unfilled polymer structures, filler composites enhance excellent abrasion resistance when it is shaped by adding small amount of filler in different percentage with respect to the volume of the matrix. The present work highlights the importance of E-waste rubber which is directly obtained from waste tires which is powdered and sewed. The particle size is limited to 150µm which is then mixed to the matrix and cured the samples by adding filler with smaller percentage which is increased gradually say 5%, 10%, 15% by weight of the matrix considered. The samples were prepared by hand lay-up technique, the prepared samples were cut and tested as according to ASTM standard, wear study has been carried out successfully for finished samples with the help of pin-on –disc apparatus. It is observed from the result that the samples loaded with high percentage of rubber powder shows excellent resistance to wear and this fashion is reduced upon reducing the amount of filler added to the polymer matrix, this is basically because of the rubber grain forms magnificent obstacles to wear loading and thereby excel huge resistance to abrasive wear when these are exposed to experience varying load and speed.

Lokesh K S
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Srinivas Institute of Technology, Valachil, Mangaluru, Karnataka,India
Karthik B.Y
UG student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Srinivas Institute of Technology, Valachil, Mangaluru, Karnataka,India
Avinash C.G
UG student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Srinivas Institute of Technology, Valachil, Mangaluru, Karnataka,India
Ganesh Kamath
UG student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Srinivas Institute of Technology, Valachil, Mangaluru, Karnataka,India
Samson Lobo
UG student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Srinivas Institute of Technology, Valachil, Mangaluru, Karnataka,India

E-Waste rubber, Wear Behaviour, FRP’s, Filler Composites

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 2 | Issue 1 | 2018
Date of Publication : 2018-04-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 11-16
Manuscript Number : IJSRMME182203
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

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Lokesh K S , Karthik B.Y, Avinash C.G, Ganesh Kamath, Samson Lobo, "Experimental Study on Tribological Characteristics of E-waste filled Fibre Reinforced Plastics ", International Journal of Scientific Research in Mechanical and Materials Engineering (IJSRMME), ISSN : 2457-0435, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp.11-16, .2018
URL : https://ijsrmme.com/IJSRMME182203

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