IMPROVING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYSTYRENE BY ADDING GLASS FIBERS

Selecting appropriate material for any manufacturing process is an important task for an industry. Now day's composite materials are replacing conventional materials due to their promising properties. In this study, we choose one of the composite materials made of glass fiber reinforced polystyrene to evaluate the mechanical properties and compare them. The manufacturing processes used for this process are Extrusion and Injection Molding. The idea of the project is to enhance the variation of mechanical properties by the various ratio of glass fiber in polystyrene melt. Tensile test and Charpy are the tests carried out to test the Tensile and Impact strength of the composite.