Comparative study on transverse compression testing of hybrid glass/kevlar composite pipe with PVC pipe

Abstract

Abstract The study is to intend to improve the transverse compressive strength of the novel kevlar composite pipe and compare its property with polyvinyl chloride pipe. The feasibility of the kevlar based composites pipe has been studied. The kevlar composite pipes are made up of 2% volume fraction of nanoclay as filler and it is taken as the experimental group in this group the testing samples are (N=20) and the plain composite pipes of kevlar composites are taken as control group. This group is also having (N=20) samples for testing. All these composite pipes are fabricated manually and the specimens have been prepared as per the ASTM standard. The kevlar composites pipes which is fabricated with 2% volume fraction of nanoclay have improved their compressive strength in transverse direction in the comparison of plain kevlar composite pipe and PVC pipe. The significance value p is <0.05. The filler used kevlar Novel composite pipes improved its transverse compression strength of 28% higher than the plain kevlar composite pipes and nanoclay fillers exhibited a significant improvement.