Composite Materials Characteristics

A Review on Composite Materials Characteristics

Sachin Kumar Kashyap

M.Tech. Scholar, Department of Mechanical engineering, Modern Institute of Engineering & Technology, Shahabad, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

ABSTRACT

The composite materials are advance engineering material, which is having additional characteristics, is reviewed in this paper. The composite material is very useful in various fields of engineering such as mechanical, structural, electrical and also having some valuable properties like shock absorbing capacity, light in weight, fire resistance, insulation, weathering resistance, flexibility in design etc. Composite material is also use to reduce the vibrations in machine tools structure like drilling, milling, lathe and grinding.

PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITES

The composite materials have valuable properties, which makes effective for the use of composites.

2.1 High Strength and stiffness: Composite materials have high strength and stiffness, which results in easy of testing results [4].

2.2 Lightweight: Composite materials are light in weight, and having strong weight ratio, which results in ease of transportation and operations.

2.3 Fire resistance: The ability for composites to withstand fire has been steadily improving over the years. There is two types of systems to be considered, fire radiant and fire resistance, which results to prevent fire in materials.

2.4 Insulations: Fiberglass Developments Ltd produced the Insulator Support straps for the Tranz Rail main trunk electrification. The straps, although only 4 mm thick, meet the required loads of 22 kN, as well as easily meeting insulation

Applications of Composites

 In civilian and military aerospace.

 In buildings, roads, bridges and pilings [8].

 In terminal boards, metering devices, bus supports and lighting components.

 In commercial and recreational boats and ships.

 In molding, vanity sinks, shower stalls and even swimming pools.

 In refrigerators, freezers, ranges, ovens, dishwashers for components that include control panels, handles, knobs, vent trims, side trims, motor housings, kick plates and many others [9].

 In vibration controls as a bed of machine tool structure [10].

5. CONCLUSIONS

Finally, it is conclude that composite materials have various applications in different engineering field. The high strength and stiffness makes it flexible to operations. Mechanical, physical and chemical characteristics are better in comparison to metals. In addition, vibrations generation is being control with help of composites (glass fiber polyester and glass fibre epoxy) and increase the damping of the machine. Composites are very useful to obtain better results with high accuracy in various testing operations. Composites is also thermally and chemically resistance in nature which results in resist the attack of reactive chemicals, and can use as a insulation medium in electrical