Mechanical Properties of Slag Reinforced Polymer Composites

Most basic and common attractive features of composites that make them useful for industrial applications are low cost, low weight, high specific modulus, renewability and biodegradability. In order to meet the dynamic desires of the design engineers the conventional materials are not alone enough. Huge amount of minerals are released from the industries as a waste materials which cause serious environmental problems. By appropriate usage of these industrial waste physical and mechanical properties of the conventional polymer materials will be enhanced. The objective of present work is to use this industrial waste i.e. Slag as particulate filler material to the epoxy matrix composites by molding technique with different weight fractions ( 0%, 5%,10%, 15%, 20% ) to study the mechanical behavior of reinforced polymer composite material. The mechanical properties of slag reinforced polymer composites of polyethylene and epoxy have been tested by varying weight fractions and subjected to different tests like tensile, bending and impact.