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Development of Eco-Natural Fibre Composite and Its Strength Determination Using Tribological and Optimized Experimental Outcomes with SEM Views

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When two or more components with various qualities are combined, a composite material is created. Although composites have already demonstrated that they are effective weight-saving materials, cutting their price is now a challenge. In terms of durability, sustainability, and environmental friendliness, natural textiles outperform synthetic ones. The major objectives of this work are to build an abaca fibre-reinforced hand-lay-up composite and evaluate its mechanical characteristics, including tensile strength, hardness, impact strength, etc. By combining natural abaca fibre reinforcing phase with tree seed-derived unsaturated natural resin, the aforementioned research seeks to create a class of composite materials. For industrial and technological uses, it has a lot of potential as a renewable fibre source. Greater strength can be demonstrated by environmentally friendly and sustainable abaca fibre-reinforced composites without significantly increasing their weight. Additionally, this material will lead to a brand-new class of fibre composites that may be beneficial for engineering applications. This study looked at the properties and fracture surface of the natural material. The last but not least is that wear experiments have been finished and compared to finite element analysis.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Chennai, India

    T. Prabakaran (Assistant Professor)

  2. School of Engineering and Technology, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan University, Trichy, India

    K. Ramkumar (Assistant Professor)

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Chennai, India

    A. Bovas Herbert Bejaxhin (Associate Professor)

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Jayaram Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chennai, India

    N. Ramanan (Assistant Professor)

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Prabakaran, T., Ramkumar, K., Bovas Herbert Bejaxhin, A. et al. Development of Eco-Natural Fibre Composite and Its Strength Determination Using Tribological and Optimized Experimental Outcomes with SEM Views. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. D (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40033-024-00647-2

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