"Study on effect of water soaking conditions on properties and morpholo" by Manjunath Shettar, Phaneesh Shettigar et al.
 

Study on effect of water soaking conditions on properties and morphology of glass fiber-cement-polyester composites

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of Materials Research and Technology

Abstract

Glass fiber-cement-polyester composites with different weight percentages (wt.%) of glassfiber and cement were fabricated in the present work through hand lay-up process. Com-posites were made to undergo different soaking conditions viz., water soaking at roomtemperature, and boiling water soaking. Unsoaked (as prepared) composites, water-soakedat room temperature, and boiling water soaked samples were tested as per ASTM standardsfor tensile and flexural strengths. The design of experiments (DOE) based on the full facto-rial design (33= L27) is applied to optimize the response variables using MINITAB-18. Resultsrevealed that increasing the wt.% of glass fiber enhanced flexural and tensile strengths.Increasing the wt.% of cement deteriorated the tensile strength but increased the flexuralstrength. However, specimen subjected to water soaking conditions exhibited a decline inboth tensile and flexural strengths.

First Page

8697

Last Page

8704

DOI

10.1016/j.jmrt.2020.05.117

Publication Date

1-1-2020

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