Fabrication and Characterization of Bamboo and Pine Apple Fibres Reinforced with Agarbatti Powder Hybrid Epoxy Composites.

Fabrication and Characterization of Bamboo and Pine Apple Fibres Reinforced with Agarbatti Powder Hybrid Epoxy Composites.

U. MAHENDRA

B. YASWANTH SURYA NAG

K. RAMA SUBRAMANYESWARARAO

M. HARI KIRAN

M. MURALI KRISHNA

Dr. K. LALIT NARAYAN, M.Tech,Ph.D

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SIR C. R. REDDY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

ABSTRACT
A composite material is made from two or more constituent materials; having better properties compared two both two parent materials. The composite is stronger, lighter, and less expensivecompared with the traditional materials. In current years composites have considerable importance as a potential operational material. Fiber reinforced polymer composites are used in almost all type of advanced engineering structure like sheets, blankets, number of otherhousehold textiles and shirts, evening wears etc. Better mechanical properties like tensile strength, flexural strength, impact strength of reinforced epoxy composite, are the main area offocus in the thesis. Composites are bamboo fiber reinforced along with pineapple fiber variations. In this present work research is carried forward to find the best composite based on strength. The aggarbatti powderis hybridized with polyster resin.The hybrid composites are formed by using hand layup techniquein random orientationby considering the proportions.

Bamboo fibre, pine apple fibre, bamboo fibre + pineapple fibre, bamboo fibre + pineapple fibre+10gms of aggarbatti Powder, bamboo fibre + pineapple fibre +20gms aggarbatti powderusing hand layup technique using Epoxy and Hardener. The composites for all the tensile, flexural, impact, hardness we prepared using ASTM standards.

KEY WORDS: - Reinforcement, epoxy resin, matrix, bamboo fibre, chemical digestion,pineapple fibre, agarbatti powder.