TY - GEN
T1 - Fabrication and testing of glass/banana hybridized epoxy mono composite leaf spring under static loading
AU - Heckadka, Srinivas Shenoy
AU - Nayak, Suhas Yeshwant
AU - Vernekar, Navaneeth Krishna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This study makes use of E glass fiber and Banana fiber woven mats for the development of the hybrid composite mono leaf spring. Six composite laminates for selecting the optimum stack sequence were fabricated, four hybrids and two standalone using epoxy as matrix. From the flexural tests, two hybrid combinations were selected for fabricating the mono leaf spring. Among the hybrid composites, the one with three layers of glass fabric on the outside displayed maximum bending strength of 99.6 MPa. Composite mono leaf spring with three layers of glass fabric on the outside exhibited lower deflection when compared to conventional leaf spring. Results indicate that mono composite leaf spring has the potential to be used as an alternative to conventional leaf spring with continual research.
AB - This study makes use of E glass fiber and Banana fiber woven mats for the development of the hybrid composite mono leaf spring. Six composite laminates for selecting the optimum stack sequence were fabricated, four hybrids and two standalone using epoxy as matrix. From the flexural tests, two hybrid combinations were selected for fabricating the mono leaf spring. Among the hybrid composites, the one with three layers of glass fabric on the outside displayed maximum bending strength of 99.6 MPa. Composite mono leaf spring with three layers of glass fabric on the outside exhibited lower deflection when compared to conventional leaf spring. Results indicate that mono composite leaf spring has the potential to be used as an alternative to conventional leaf spring with continual research.
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U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.777.432
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.777.432
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85054826413
SN - 9783035713718
T3 - Key Engineering Materials
SP - 432
EP - 437
BT - Advanced Materials and Engineering Materials VII
A2 - Wei, Peng Sheng
PB - Trans Tech Publications Ltd
T2 - 7th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Engineering Materials, ICAMEM 2018
Y2 - 17 May 2018 through 18 May 2018
ER -