Tribological and Mechanical behaviour of reinforced polymer composite material for clutch facing in automobile application

Abstract

In the current trend applications the conductive composite polymers are obtained by filling up the polymer matrixes along with different Carbon blacks were also investigated. out of many One of the carbon black is the particulate filler and is the best example which is widely used as reinforce filler in all the polymer industry. The most available carbon blacks in the market are from thermal cracking of natural gas and furnace black which are generated by incomplete combustion of oil filled in different stocks. And hence it is most necessary to implement and develop the alternative best source of the fillers from the renewable resources from the waste from mostly like agriculture units, oil palms, forest bamboo stem and coconut shells. And these are rich in organic materials. Therefore the effective way of utilization of coconut shell which consists of as high as 70.5% Carbon, 0.99% ash, 31.75% lignin and 19.5% cellulose and 70% hemicelluloses. Hence mostly this agricultural waste which is unused can be utilized and upgraded. Hence after lot of experiments we implemented a polymer matrix composite using coconut shell char and investigated their mechanical and tribological properties and behaviour. The brand new item and also the material like hard porous carbon material coconut char has been prepared with the help of carburizing the coconut shell as the main raw material at various temperatures from 650°C till 950°C, and finally the different experiments were been conducted to check the friction wear behaviour of the composite material.