Enhancement of Mechanical Properties of Glass Fiber Reinforced Vinyl Ester Composites by Embedding Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes through Solution Processing Technique

This research work enumerates the effect of Multi Wall carbon Nano Tubes (MCNT) when added to glass fibre reinforced polymer composite on the performance characteristics. In the present era, the demand and usage of FRP composites was increasing in rapid manner. The applications of these composites are not limited to a field, but it is widely spread over to various areas. The field of applications includes automotive, sporting goods, aerospace, structural, cryogenic vessels, solar panels and oil and gas pipe lines. Fibre and glass reinforced polymeric composite materials are subjected to different range of crosshead speeds during their in-service life. The work has been focused to investigate the effect of carbon Nano tube addition in glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite on tensile behaviour. MCNT modified matrix was processed with vinyl ester as a matrix materials and multi walled carbon Nano tubes (MCNT) as filler with constant MCNT content (3%). The tensile strength are dependent on the MCNT content in GRRP composite. During this investigation average tensile strength 15.8N/mm, Hardness of GFRF composite is 46HRM and Flexural strength is 22.04N/mm2.