EFFECT OF BIO- FILLER ON TENSILE AND COMPRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF BIDIRECTIONAL E-GLASS REINFORCED WITH EPOXY PLASTICS

Fibre reinforced plastics are considered as light weight industry ready products by offering its remarkable high strength for the less weight, corrosion resistance, easy of processing and better control over the geometry of the parts to be made. Blending of polymers or compounding polymers with different fillers is a rather simple way to produce new polymeric materials with desired properties. Production and uses of particulate-filled polymer composites have increased intensively because of favorable cost/performance ratio. The cost reduction, as a primary interest of adding mineral fillers to polymers, has transformed during the time into increasing demands to fulfill a function role of polymer matrix composites. The unique and diverse characteristics of composites materials have increased in many folds. In the present research, experiment has been successfully carried out by synthesizing E-glass/epoxy composites with mussels shells powder added in different percentage (i.e. 0%, 6%, 12%, & 18 %.). Mechanical tests have been conducted according ASTM standard. It was observed from the results that adding of mussel shell powder influence greatly on the basic properties of polymer matrix material. The samples under tensile loading with varied filler percentage has no much effect on improving tensile strength where as sample loaded with upmost quantity bears higher compressive strength than the rest