Compression strength analysis of glass fibre polymer composites filled with brown algae powder compared to glass fibre reinforced polymer composite

Abstract

Abstract The current investigation intends to compare the compression strength analysis of glass fiber composites filled with brown algae filler. The material involved in this work is a glass fibre composite filled with and without brown algae filler. 40 specimens were tested by using selected parameters using the universal testing machine. In this work, the control group was a glass fiber epoxy composite and the experimental group was a brown algae-filled glass fiber-reinforced polymer. The mean compressive strength obtained for the brown algae-filled glass fibre reinforced polymer is, whereas it is for the Glass fibre reinforced polymer with the significant value is 0.018 (p<0.05). Within the scope of this investigation, experimental data reveals that strength in compression is high when the glass fiber-reinforced composite is filled with brown algae powder.