Microwave Joining of Natural Fiber Reinforced Green Composites

Inderdeep Singh; P. K. Bajpai; D. Malik; J. Madaan; N. Bhatnagar

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.410.102

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Microwave Joining of Natural Fiber Reinforced Green Composites

Abstract:

Natural fiber based bio-composites are gaining prime importance these days because of their high strength to weight ratio and environmental benefits. An increase in the application spectrum of these materials necessitates cost effective high quality processing in order to meet the stringent design requirements. In the present investigation, fully biodegradable natural fiber (grewia optiva) reinforced poly lactic acid (PLA) composite has been developed. The tensile strength of the composite has been found to increase by 75% of that of the neat polymer. The developed composites have been joined using the adhesive bonding and the microwave joining. The tensile shear strength of the joint has been experimentally evaluated and it has been found that the bond strength of adhesively bonded specimen (4.9% of the parent material strength) is substantially lower as compared to microwave joined specimen (62.85% of the parent material strength). The process of microwave joining has also been simulated using standard Multiphysics software and the results were in close agreement with the experimentally recorded values.