Experimental Investigation of Thermal Properties in Glass Fiber Reinforced with Aluminium

Abstract. A test method of a Guarded heat flow meter are used to measure the thermal
conductivity of glass fiber and filled with a aluminum powder epoxy composites using an
instrument in accordance with ASTM. This experimental study reveals that the incorporation
of aluminum and glass fiber reinforced results in enhancement of thermal conductivity of
epoxy resin and thereby improves its heat transfer capability. Fiber metal laminates are good
candidates for advanced automobile structural applications due to their high categorical
mechanical and thermal properties. The most consequential factor in manufacturing of these
laminates is the adhesive bonding between aluminum and FRP layers. Here several glass-fiber reinforced aluminum were laminates with different proportion of bonding adhesion were been manufactured. It was observed that the damage size is more preponderant in laminates with poor interfacial adhesion compared to that of laminates with vigorous adhesion between aluminum and glass layers numerically calculated ones and it is found that the values obtained
for various composite models using experimental testing method.