Effect of Sodium bicarbonate on Fire behaviour of tilled E- Glass Reinforced Epoxy Composites
Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Composites such as fibre reinforced polymers give us the good mechanical properties, but their fire behaviour is not appreciable and needs to be improved. In this work, E- glass fiber is used as a reinforcement material and Epoxy resin is used as a matrix with particulate sodium bi-carbonate (NaHCO 3 ) is used as additive. The hand lay-up technique is adopted for the development of composites by varying percentage of additive. All the tests were conducted according to ASTM standards to study the Fire behaviour of the developed composites. The different fire properties like Ignition time, mass loss rate and flame propagation rate of Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP) with NaHCO 3 are compared with neat FRPs. It is found that the ignition time increases as the percentage of additive is increased.
Authors: S Girish, K. Devendra, K N Bharath
Institution: GM University Davanagere Karnataka
Language: English
Subfield: Polymers and Plastics
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2531726485