Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of Nanofillers Glass Fiber Reinforced Composites

Abstract

The usage of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) composites is gradually increasing day by day because of its unique properties over conventional metals. As weight to strength ratio is very high for GFRP materials, these are widely used in Aerospace, Marine, Automotive, Locomotive etc. industries. In this work, specimens were made by Nanosilica as a nanofiller, Epoxy as a resin and Glass fibre as reinforcement using hand lay-up process. The nano silica has dispersed into epoxy by three levels i.e, 1,2 and 3%. The addition of nanosillica with neat resin has enhanced the ultimate tensile strength by 7.02% and impact strength by 38%.