ANALYSIS OF EPOXY, MWCNT and ALUMINIUM MATERIAL FOR COMPOSITE CONNECTING ROD

Engineering

ABSTRACT This paper focused on a composite material made up of E-Glass Fibre, Epoxy Resin, Fly Ash, and MWCNT. Every of these materials are selected to obtain desired properties as per the applications. As the composite materials have wide range of classification. On the basis of structure composites are classified as Matrix and Reinforcement composite. The composite focused in this paper is fibre reinforcement composite. The main reason for fabrication of this composite material is to obtain an alternative material for connecting rod. Basically, Connecting rod is a mechanical element used to transfer energy from piston to camshaft. It also helps to convert reciprocating motion of piston to rotating motion of camshaft. Connecting rod has two major elements known as ends. It has large end which connects to camshaft and small end is used to connect piston by means of gudgeon pin. During each rotation of the connecting rod, there are number forces acts on it. Also connecting rod has a working in the high temperature applications so temperature is also one of the most important factors to be considered during its design. Composite material is a homogeneous mixture of more than one material generally done to improve the properties of material or to obtain new material having better and improved properties. The composite material is mainly divided in to two major categories namely matrix material and Reinforced composite. Basically manufacturing of composite material consist of number of phase changes during the operation. In this project epoxy resin is used as a casting material in liquid form with hardener. And E-Glass fibre, Fly Ash, and very little amount of MWCNT are used as additives.

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