Determination of Modulus of Elasticity of Hybrid Composite Material with Reinforcement of Coconut Coir

G Kranthi Kumara¹, A K Birrub², K Nareshc³, Sunil Chintha⁴

Abstract

High performance demands on engineering material leads extensive research and developing engineering applications such as insulating walls, floors, ceilings and insulating covers by changing mixing proportions of ingredients to develop new material. The emerging trends of hybrid composite materials are cheap, eco-friendly and the resulting material will have improved properties when compare to individual fiber (coconut coir) and POP (Plaster of Paris).

This paper discusses about the elastic property of hybrid composite material consists of coconut coir reinforcing in Plaster of Paris as a base material and a binding resin supposed to be a good insulating material in both domestic and industrial applications. Coconut coir binds with POP transfer heat to the reinforcing fiber (coir). For the preparation hand layup process is used to develop the samples by a mold preparation consists of a flat straight molding boxes of confined dimensions and reinforcement fiber laid in the mold with its base material by proper mixing proportions up to the edges of molding box and after proper curing of material the samples are cut for testing to determine the mechanical properties with deflection of hybrid composite material beam samples. The mixing proportion of coconut coir is varied at 0 and 300 grams respectively with 1000 grams of POP and made two attempts for samples.

Keywords

• POP (Plaster of Paris or Super fine), Coconut coir, Deflection, Modulus of elasticity

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G Kranthi Kumara, A K Birrub, K Nareshc, Sunil Chintha. Determination of Modulus of Elasticity of Hybrid Composite Material with Reinforcement of Coconut Coir. International Conference on Information Engineering, Management and Security 2014. Vol. 1. Chennai: Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties, 2014. 161-166. Print.