Effect of E-waste Rubber on Wear Behaviour of Glass fibre Reinforced with Epoxy Composites

Abstract

Now a day’s composites play the significant role in structural applications because of light weight and high strength, sufficient ductility, hardness, brittleness, toughness. The favorable properties of these lightweight structures forms familiar group while opting type of materials suggesting for particular applications. In addition to this the performance of fibre reinforced plastics is increased to the greater extent by adding filler materials into the matrix material , unlike unfilled polymer structures, filler composites enhance excellent abrasion resistance when it is shaped by adding small amount of filler in different percentage with respect to the volume of the matrix. The present work highlights the importance of E-waste rubber which is directly obtained from waste tires which is powdered and sewed. The particle size is limited to 150μm which is then mixed to the matrix and cured the samples by adding filler with the smaller percentage which is increased gradually say 5%, 10%, 15% by weight of the matrix considered. The samples were prepared by hand lay-up technique, the prepared samples were cut and tested as according to ASTM standard, wear study has been carried out successfully for finished samples with the help of pin-on –disc apparatus. It is observed from the result that the samples loaded with high percentage of rubber powder show excellent resistance to wear and this fashion is reduced upon reducing the amount of filler added to the polymer matrix, this is basically because of the rubber grain forms magnificent obstacles to wear loading and thereby excel huge resistance to abrasive wear when these are exposed to experience varying load and speed.