Monday, 21 October 2013

Engineering properties evaluation of sintered foamed carbon fiber composite

Vol.1 No.4

Year: 2013

Issue: Apr-Jun

Title : Engineering properties evaluation of sintered foamed carbon fiber composite

Author Name : Radha Raman Mishra, Ali Khanehkeshi

Synopsis :

Radha Raman Mishra and his co-author A. K. Jha present the scenario for the demand of advanced materials, which have high strength and comparatively low weight. Carbon fiber composites are satisfying the requirements but high cost of manufactured products restricts their use only for highly precise applications. In this present study, a light weight foamed carbon fiber composite was developed by a hand lay-up layer by layer processing method. Wax, thermocol and camphor balls were used as foaming agent which gets evaporated leaving a porous structure after sintering. The investigations were made to evaluate mechanical properties of developed foamed composites. Finally they observed that, the camphor foamed composite has better hardness and wax foamed composite has more energy storage capacity at moderate impacts.

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