Srelam, Jayanth Kumar (2017) The Impact of Natural Fibre Reinforcements on the Interfacial Adhesion of Epoxy with Metals. Coursework Masters thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The present project investigates the suitability of natural fibre as the main reinforcement material and as an alternative for synthetic fibres like carbon and glass fibre. In the industries, epoxy is well known adhesive materials for the metals. In addition, it is used for the preparation of metal corrosion in different engineering applications. Commonly, epoxy is reinforced with synthetic fabrics such as glass fibers. In this present project, a potential of using natural fibers to reinforce epoxy for adhesion with metals purposes are studied. Coir fiber is considered as main reinforcement and tested for its deformation and strength using tensile machine and the obtain test results are compared with the glass fibers reinforced material.
In this project, coir fibre is treated with NaOH to improve the interfacial adhesion and the material is cut into different lengths and coir reinforced epoxy is built. Different fiber length and content is considered in this investigation. To know the strength of the Coir reinforcement epoxy, this mixture applied between the two metal specimens, the tensile test is conducted, and SEM showed the internal damage of the reinforced epoxy. The same process repeated with the Glass fibre. The obtained results from the tensile machine and SEM of Coir fibre reinforced epoxy material compared with the test results of glass-reinforced epoxy. Further studies can be deal with an investigation on natural fibres such as jute, flax as the main reinforcement material and should be tested for its adhesion strength and load sustainability. Obtained test results can compared with the present project works to know the efficient natural fibre as a replacement of synthetic fibre. In addition to, further research should be made to know the real time suitability of natural fibres.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Coursework Masters) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Current UniSQ staff and students can request access to this thesis. Please email research.repository@unisq.edu.au with a subject line of SEAR thesis request and provide: Name of the thesis requested and Your name and UniSQ email address. |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Current - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - No Department (1 Jul 2013 -) |
| Supervisors: | Yousif, Belal |
| Qualification: | Master of Engineering Sciences (Mechanical engineering) |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2026 00:38 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jul 2026 00:38 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Coir fiber, Glass fibre, Reinforced Material, Epoxy Tensile, SEM |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/53213 |
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