Effect of Al2O3 Nano filler on Mechanical Behaviour of Hybrid Polymer Composite-A Taguchi Approach

Abstract

In structural applications such as automotive parts, aerospace structures, physical exercise equipment’s and civil structures. The reinforced polymer composites are extensively used for their characteristics such as high specific strengths and specific modulus. The Composite material of hybrid nature is made from Glass fiber, Nylon fiber and aluminium oxide along with epoxy resin to prepare the test model. The factors, levels of factors and number of test model which are been considered for the experiments as well as for the analysis is decided based on Design of Experiment method by Taguchi. Test models are subjected to tensile test by extracting results for experimental and optimal evaluation of mechanical behaviour of test models. Experimental values obtained from the tests used as input information for the Taguchi analysis utilizing orthogonal array method. Analysis will give the optimized combination of factors and hence from the inputs data signal to noise ratio and mean value we can expect. The aim of this paper is to showcase the analysis which has been carried out to predict the best combination of factors level, predict the most influencing factors for the test models and to get an optimized mechanical properties.