Tribological and Mechanical behaviour of reinforced polymer composite material for clutch facing in automobile application

Abstract

In current applications, the conductive composite polymers are investigated by filling up the polymer matrixes along with different Carbon blacks. The carbon black is considered as particulate filler in all the polymer industry. The most available carbon blacks are used from thermal cracking of natural gas and furnace black which are generated by incomplete combustion of oil filled stocks. Hence, it is necessary to implement and develop the alternative best source of the fillers from the renewable resources like wastes in agriculture units, oil palms, bamboo stem and coconut shells. The coconut shell which consists of 70.5% Carbon, 0.99% ash, 31.75% lignin and 19.5% cellulose and 70% hemicelluloses are considered compare to the agricultural waste. In this work, the investigation is made on mechanical properties and tribological behaviour of polymer matrix composite with coconut shell char.