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Hemanth G and Apurva Rakesh,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru-570 008, India
Abstract
The main objective of this article is to discuss the mechanical properties of HDPE reinforced short glass
fiber and SiC filled composites. Composites materials made up of the high density poly ethylene (HDPE),
short glass fibers (SGFs) and silicon carbide (SiC) particles are tested for the various mechanical properties
such as hardness, inter-laminar shear strength, tensile properties, flexural properties and impact strength
following prescribed ASTM standards. This investigation showed that the mechanical properties can be
significantly improved by proper incorporation of SGFs and SiC particles into HDPE matrix. The fracture
surfaces are analyzed using scanning electron microscope (SEM). The effects between SGFs and SiC,
processing and mechanical properties are discussed.
2. Flexural Strength
1000Kg/m3 or 1g/cm3. The pure HDPE has a density absorb the sudden application of a load with
of 953Kg/m3 or 0.953 g/cm3 [3]. This is beneficial in breaking. The Izod impact test is done by making
the light weight applications. the V-notch on the specimen using notch cutter
machine. The pendulum hammer strikes the
3 3
SPECIMENS g/cm Kg/m
specimen and the Table-4.0 shows the variation of
TR-1 1.0811 1081.1
impact strength with the percentage variation of
TR-2 1.0942 1094.2 filler material. It is found that the composite with no
TR-3 1.1121 1112.1 SiC and with 10% SiC showed higher strength when
TR-4 1.1156 1115.6 compared with other specimens.
Table-4.0: Density test result. Impact
Impact
Energy strength
5. Hardness Measurement strength
Specimen absorbed (Indian
(ASTM
(J) Standards)
) (J/m)
The shore D hardness is used to measure the (KJ/m2)
TR-1 0.5700 154.00 16.16
hardness. The Duro meter is a device used to
TR-2 0.5000 134.70 13.31
measure the hardness, but there is Barcol hardness TR-3 0.6000 159.50 16.76
scale which is also used with this. TR-4 0.4500 120.00 11.83
Table-6.0 Impact Test Results
7. Fractography Fig-5.0(b): Image of Tensile Specimen.
Fractography is the study of the fracture surfaces of Here one can notice the failure is very elastic nature
materials. Fractographic methods are routinely used this is due to low cross head speed and also due to
to determine the cause of failure in engineering matrix material property. It can be seen that most of
structures. For the analysis of the fracture surfaces the fibers are oriented along the loading and few are
images of scanning electron microscope is obtained not which do not support for load bearing capacity
These images are 500x magnification (that is 50µm of the material.
scale) taken from JSM-IT300 instrument.and
In Fig-5.0(b) there are few SiC filler particles that
compared with best two specimen and the samples
can be seen which contributes in enhancing the
were thoroughly cleaned, air-dried and coated with
strength of the specimen.
100 Å thick gold particles.
EDAX analysis
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
4. Furukawa T, Sato H, Kita Y, Matsukawa K,
We would like to thank Dr. Suresha B, Dean of Yamaguchi H, Ochiai S, Siesler HW, Ozaki
Research and Development, NIE, Mysore, and the Y. Molecular structure, crystallinity and
Department of Mechanical Engineering for guiding morphology of polyethylene/polypropylene
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