Tensile, Fatigue and Vibration Damping Characteristics of High- Performance Glass Fiber Reinforced Composites with Aligned MWNTs
Sasidhar Jangam1, S. Raja2, K. Hemachandra Reddy3, Shijo Thomas4
1Sasidhar Jangam*, Department of Mechanical & Automobile Engineering, Christ University, Bangalore 560074, India.
2S. Raja, Structural Technologies Division, CSIR National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India.
3K. Hemachandra Reddy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur, India.
4Shijo Thomas, Department of Mechanical & Automobile Engineering, Christ University, Bangalore, India.
Manuscript received on January 26, 2020. | Revised Manuscript received on February 05, 2020. | Manuscript published on February 30, 2020. | PP: 2993-2893 | Volume-9 Issue-3, February 2020. | Retrieval Number: C5774029320/2020©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.C5774.029320
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Abstract: In the present work multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs), the highly anisotropic, promising nanofillers used as additional structural reinforcement to improve the tensile, fatigue and damping capabilities of glass fiber reinforced composites (GFRP) for the Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) application. Further, the GFRP nanocomposites have been strengthened by making use of strong anisotropy of MWNT’s by aligning them on each layer of GFRP laminate. GFRP nanocomposites have been prepared for very low weight percentage (0.5 wt%) of MWNT, with alignment and without alignment. The alignment has been done with the newly developed in-house electrode-fixture assembly, which can be scalable to any size. The result shows that the alignment of MWNTs on GFRP lamina has a significant effect over GFRP lamina without MWNT alignment and the neat GFRP (without any nano reinforcements) without sacrificing any of the mechanical properties.
Keywords: Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWNTs), Glass fiber reinforced composites, Nanotube Alignment, Fatigue, Structural Damping.