Delamination in Drilling of Sisal/Banana Reinforced Composites Produced by Hand Lay-Up Process

Abstract

Natural fiber composites are presently replacing the synthetic fiber in many fields. The present research work study is an attempt to manufacture and test the sisal/banana fiber reinforced polymer composites. Composite have been manufactured using banana and sisal fiber along with epoxy resin as reinforcement. With these composites drilling has been carried out to study the factors and combination of factors that influence the delamination of drilled unidirectional sisal-banana fiber reinforced composites. Drilling experiments were performed based on the L9-Taguchi method. Delamination factor evaluated for the selected parameters spindle speed, feed and diameter of the drill tool with the help of signal to noise ratio, ANOVA analysis and to obtain the conditions for minimum delamination.