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Investigation of mechanical and tribological performance of wood dust reinforced epoxy composite under dry, wet and heated contact condition

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Published/Copyright: January 12, 2024
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International Polymer Processing
From the journal International Polymer Processing Volume 39 Issue 2

Abstract

Natural fibers have received a lot of attention from academia as well as industry in the context of sustainable materials. Since they are more environmentally friendly than traditional synthetic materials, their physico-mechanical and frictional properties such as porosity, moisture absorption, high strength, modulus, toughness, and wear resistivity make them appropriate for a variety of industrialized applications where issues involving a significant quantity of dumping must be taken into account. The paper introduces an attempt to use epoxy-based composites reinforced with wood dust for various applications. The composites are prepared with various wood filler stacks (0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, and 12.5 wt%) embedded with epoxy resin and subjected to tensile and flexural testing. The highest ultimate tensile strength achieved at 7.5 wt% wood dust support is 22 MPa, whereas the highest flexural modulus is 0.48 GPa at 12.5 wt% composites. The composite’s wear properties is examined under dry, wet, and heated contact conditions using a pin-on-disk (POD) machine. In dry condition, coefficient of friction (COF) varies from 0.10 to 0.38 whereas, in wet condition, the value of COF decreased by 70–83 %. In heated state, the COF is increased by up to 15 % when varying the temperature from 40 °C to 80 °C. The composite exhibits better wear behavior in the lower filler support than in the higher filler support due to the sturdy connection between the matrix and filler. On the other hand, the wet state’s tribological performance is superior to the dry and heated states. During surface morphology analysis, it is found that various voids, crack formation, wear debris, and thin transfer layer formation take place on the composite.

Keywords: wood dust; polymer composite; mechanical properties; wear behavior; surface morphology
Corresponding author: Sumit Bhowmik, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, Assam 788010, India, E-mail:

Acknowledgment

DST-FIST and NIT Silchar’s Machine Element Laboratory provided the required resources for the study work to proceed. The authors also thank the anonymous referees for their time and insightful suggestions.

  1. Ethical approval: The manuscript contains no research involving human or animal subjects conducted by any of the authors.

  2. Author contributions: Both the author has significant contribution regarding experiment as well as analysis of the study.

  3. Competing interests: There are no potential conflicts of interest in this article’s work, authorship, or publishing, according to the author(s).

  4. Research funding: This work earned no unique grant from any federal, private, or non-profit funding agency.

  5. Data availability: Data sets generated during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Received: 2023-07-06
Accepted: 2023-11-23
Published Online: 2024-01-12
Published in Print: 2024-05-27

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ipp-2023-4410
Keywords for this article
wood dust; polymer composite; mechanical properties; wear behavior; surface morphology

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Research Articles
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  4. Experimental investigation on mechanical and tribological analysis of pineapple leaf (Ananas comosus) and sisal (Agave sisalana) fibers reinforced hybrid epoxy composites
  5. An experimental study of weave pattern effect on the mechanical and dynamic behavior of composite laminates
  6. Structuring step dependent characteristics in joining using pin-like structures in the vibration welding process
  7. Fabrication of expandable graphite and soybean oil-based synergistic modified polyurethane foam with improved thermal stability and flame retardant properties
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