Study on the effect of aluminium addition on the physical properties of unsaturated polyester/ jute composites

Bhabatosh Biswas; Subhranshu Chatterjee; Sumit Chabri

doi:10.52756/ijerr.2016.v2.003

Bhabatosh Biswas Dr.M.N.Dastur School of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India
Subhranshu Chatterjee Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711 103, India
Sumit Chabri Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711 103, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52756/ijerr.2016.v2.003

Keywords: Aluminium, jute, natural fibre, physical property

Abstract

Jute fibre along with Al particle reinforced unsaturated polyester composites having different filler (both Jute and Al were in equal wt.%) loading viz. 2, 5, 10 and 15 wt.% were fabricated by compression molding technique. Structural investigation is done through SEM. The physical testing like density measurement, void % measurement and gel point calculation has been done and optimum result obtain for UP/Jute/Al composites at the filler content of 10 wt.%. At 10 wt.% of filler content the UP/Jute/Al composites contain lower void content and cure at a controllable manner. Due to this feature of the UP/Jute/Al composites, these composites may be shown good mechanical property.

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