Tribological Properties of Sisal Fiber Reinforced With Basalt and Glass Fiber for Composite Application

Abstract

In a creativity world man will be looking for a easiest method to find a life of daily used things like house hold utensils, construction purposes, moving vehicle purposes and other uses etc. like composite materials it has a long life, less price, easiest way of getting, high strength and so on. In this paper we research a fiber on easily get from nature ie sisal fiber that we can get from the sisal plant and with this two more will be added one is basalt fiber get from basalt rock, and other is glass fiber. The three fibers are using different streams with an epoxy resins like sisal and epoxy; basalt and epoxy; glass and epoxy; sisal, basalt and epoxy: sisal, glass and epoxy and finally glass, basalt and epoxy. For these combination use we can contrasting life of materials by conducting on wear test of two body (pin on disc) and three body abrasive wear test for calculating volume loss and wear rate. In two body wear test can be done by using 2 emery sheets at a grade of 150 & 320. Three body abrasive wear test can be done by varying a loads are 25kgs & 12.5kgs. what we get from the nature sisal and basalt fiber both are biodegradable and improving properties of composite material.