10.35940/ijeat.B3160.129219
https://zenodo.org/records/5602207
oai:zenodo.org:5602207
Thomas P
Thomas P
School of Mechanical Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, India.
Sreehari VM
Sreehari VM
School of Mechanical Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, India.
Vibration Characteristics of Composite Beam Having Flax, Aloevera and Sisal Fibers as Reinforcements
Zenodo
2019
Cut out, Dynamic analysis, Finite element analysis, Natural fibre composites.
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication(BEIESP)
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication(BEIESP)
Publisher
2019-12-30
2249-8958
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Composites are highly significant due to their various advantages and natural fibre reinforced composites can be vastly used in automobile and aircraft interior applications. This paper principally deals with natural fibre reinforced composite (NFC) in which flax, aloevera, sisal fibres are selected to be reinforced in epoxy matrix (as inner laminate layers) and is used in combination with glass-epoxy (as outer laminate layers). Such composite beam structures are analysed in Ansys software employing FEM. The comparison for various NFCs is presented by evaluating effect on natural frequency due to various parametric variations like laminate stacking sequence, material hybridization, and presence of cut out.