Abstract
This research explores the potential of utilizing clamshells: marine waste and cenospheres: industrial waste to create a novel class of hybrid glass epoxy composite materials. Glass fibre reinforced polymer composites are effective based on their properties such as lightweight, extreme durability, and so on, but at the same time, they have the most common disadvantage of wear, which necessitates improvement in the wear properties of fibre composites to facilitate good durability. The composites studied in this work are glass-epoxy composites with clamshell and cenosphere fillers. To assess their performance, a ball-on-flat linear reciprocating tribology test has been conducted on the developed composites to investigate friction and temperature variations during different cycles of linear reciprocating motion. The percentage of fillers selected for the research is 0 wt. %, 10 wt. %, 20 wt. % through the hand layup process. The results indicate that composites with added fillers exhibited higher kinetic friction and temperature evolution during the test process. The volumetric loss of cenosphere filled composites is found to be higher than the composites filled with clamshell filler during the test procedure. It is observed that the kinetic friction increases for composites with increase in cenosphere filler but for clamshell filler it is decreased at 20 wt. %. The temperature that is generated is observed to be maximum for clamshell filler of 20 wt. % and the experimental volume loss increases with an escalation in filler content for both clamshell and cenosphere-filled composites.
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