EVALUATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ON NANO CARBON WITH FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES

Over the past year's fiber reinforced polymers have replaced many of the conventional
metal/materials in modern engineering. This is achievable because of the advantages of
fiber reinforced polymers over the existing materials. Collectively fiber reinforced
polymer composites are light, stiff and allow both large and small scale production at
lower cost, however, the strength of these composites are highly not noticeable. In an
attempt to improve the different mechanical properties of the existing fiber polymer
composites, a small amount of nano Carbon powder have been added as constituent in
different weight ratio. In this experimental study nano Carbon powder with three different
natural fibers of water hyacinth, Arecanut and Hen feather ( 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 weight %),
polyLactic acid (Bal weight %) are mixed together and seven different samples of Nano
Carbon Fibers Reinforced Polymer composites (NCFRPC) were fabricated for system-1,
system-2 and system-3 by using polymer compression injection molding machine. After
the fabrication process, all the specimens were prepared as per the ASTM standards and
the tensile, compressive and flexural properties are evaluated.