Experimental Study on Feasibility of Recycled E-Glass Fibre from Fibre Epoxy Composite

Mechanical Engineering

2nd National Conference on Recent Trends & Innovations in Mechanical Engineering

The reusing feasibility of E-glass fibre recycled from fibre glass epoxy composite has been experimentally studied in the present endeavor. To carry out the same, the recycled fiber by thermal processing at 450-500ºC temperature was used. The softened fibre after thermal processing had undergone the gasification process to get removed from the surface pollutants. The cleaned residue fibre is then enforced into the Epoxy matrix with the volumetric ratio of 35:65 respectively. The hand layup method was employed to fabricate the new residue-epoxy composite with the use of an open moulding technique. The resulted sample was undergone various mechanical experimentation for its respective characterization. The obtained experimental results were compared with that of the pure E-glass-epoxy composite. The result declares that, there will be a reduction in strength of glass fibre after thermal processing. But, the same residue fibre has the feasibility to use as additive reinforcements for some applications like concrete, mortars etc

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