Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Design and Production Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt
Abstract
In this article, the effects of using nanometer and micrometer-sized aluminum particles in glass fiber reinforcement epoxy composites have been studied. The study evaluates the mechanical properties improvement with the addition of nanometer and micrometer-sized aluminum particles to glass fiber reinforcement epoxy composites. The combination of aluminum and woven glass fibers provide high potential for the modification of the epoxy matrix. The composites were produced by hand lay-up technique. The glass fiber volume fraction was kept constant at 35%, while the contents of aluminum particles were increased from 0.2 to 4 wt%. The developed composites showed enhanced tensile, flexural, hardness, wear, and impact behavior as compared to glass fiber reinforcement epoxy. An enhancement of 27% was attained in tensile strength with glass fiber reinforcement epoxy filled with 2 wt% aluminum nanoparticles; however, adding 4 wt% nanometer-sized aluminum particles showed an improvement of 114%, 116%, 21%, 52.2%, 21.4%, 76.6% in tensile elongation, toughness, tensile modulus, flexural strength, flexural strain, flexural modulus, respectively as compared to neat glass fiber reinforcement epoxy. Increasing the nanometer-sized aluminum particles in glass fiber reinforcement epoxy composites to 4 wt% reversed the improvement trend in tensile strengths, wear, and hardness. However, increasing the micrometer-sized aluminum particles to 4 wt% has shown fair improvement in all used aluminum loadings. Microscopy results showed that the aluminum particles were well dispersed in the epoxy matrix. However, a higher weight fraction of nano-aluminum in the epoxy had promoted little agglomerations.
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Polymers and Plastics,Materials Science (miscellaneous),Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)
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