Abrasive Study of ELT Rubber Loaded with Fibre Reinforced Plastics

Abstract

Study on end of life tires impact on major material reuse operation to predominant the recyclable use in tribological applications due to the fact that it yields better termination over abrasive loading when it is proportionate with the potential lightweight materials. The favourable properties of these lightweight structures 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.