Synthesis and Mechanical Properties of Araldite/Wooden Powder/Lead oxide/PPY/PANI Composites

Abstract

In the Present day world, there is a huge amount of work and research being done for various advancements in Composites. This, in turn has led to the innovations in materials and discovery of wide variety of new composites. A composite material is basically a material which is made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties, which when combined, produce a material with characteristics different from the individual components. This feature helped us to develop various composite materials with desired properties of interest .The mechanical properties of the composites developed is due to the combined effects of matrix composition , reinforcement, hardener and solvents used. This paper highlights the experimental study on the synthesis and mechanical properties such as Ultimate Tensile strength,UL and cross breaking strength of Araldite/wooden powder/Lead oxide/PPY/PANI reinforced epoxy composites. Various Studies were performed by varying the concentrations of Lead oxide,woodenpowder,PANI,PPY(by weight percent) keeping the concentration of Entire composite constant(100%) in the epoxy matrix. The hardener used was HY951 which is hydrophilic in nature. The particles of wooden powder and lead oxide adds to the enhancement of mechanical properties. It was observed that the mechanical properties enhanced for higher concentration of Lead oxide,woodenpowder,PANI ,PPY while decreased for lower concentrations, keeping pure epoxy composite as the reference.