Fabrication and Testing of Vetiver Fiber-Reinforced Composite

Abstract

Composite materials have excellent design requirement with significant weight saving and good strength-to-weight ratio compared to conventional materials. They have proved to be a good alternative material as compared to other traditional materials even in the high pressure and sustain in any environment circumstances. Composition materials exhibit good fatigue performance and good temperature resistance and are having good wear resistance, especially in industrial sectors. Composite materials are a combination of two or more materials arranged in the form of layers by using binding materials through some prescribed methods. Natural fiber composite materials are plays an importent role as fiber reinforcement materials. In the vetiver fiber composite, the polyester iso resin is used as a binding material, in which one layer is polyester iso resin and another layer is vetiver fiber powder and E-glass fiber. By using hand layup method with different arrangements of layers prepared by using the resin mixture, vetiver powder, and E-glass fiber. After the preparation of composite, the composite is prepared into specimen as per ASTM standards to conduct various tests such as tensile, hardness, and thermal conductivity to know their mechanical and thermal properties. From the test results, it is concluded that the vetiver fiber powder with E-glass is having more properties.