Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: May | Volume: 7 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 211-216
Investigation of Mechanical and Thermal Behaviour of Natural Sandwich Composite Materials for Partition Walls
Manobala K S1, Prabhakaran S2, Ramji Gautham D R3, Sathish Kumar M3, Bala Ganesan A3, Nithish C3
1Assistant Professor, Department of Production Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Peelamedu, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India.
2Assistant Professor (Senior Grade), Department of Robotics and Automation Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Peelamedu, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India.
3Undergraduate scholars, B.E Production Engineering, Department of Production Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Peelamedu, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India.
Corresponding Author: Bala Ganesan A
ABSTRACT
The need to achieve environmental sustainability has moved the construction sector to show great interest in natural materials that are eco-friendly and possessing high strength to weight ratio, better thermal and mechanical properties, high stiffness and considerable limiting oxygen indexes as well. In response to these requirements, an attempt has been made to study the mechanical and thermal behaviour of natural composite sandwich made of flax reinforcement and coir as core material. The composite sandwiches are fabricated using hand layup technique as per the required dimensions of the specific tests. Experiments were conducted to predict the thermal and mechanical properties, viz. thermal conductivity, limiting oxygen index and tensile strength and the results were discussed. Glass fiber as reinforcement and polyurethane foam as core material was also used to fabricate the composite sandwiches for the purpose of comparison.
Keywords: Composite sandwich, Flax, Glass, Coir, Polyurethane foam
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