Epoxy Resin Based Composites, Mechanical and Tribological Properties: A Review
Journal Title: Tribology in Industry - Year 2015, Vol 37, Issue 4
Abstract
High fuel consumption by automobile and aerospace vehicles built from legacy alloys has been a great challenge to global design and material engineers. This has called for researches into material development for the production of lighter materials of the same or even superior mechanical properties to the existing materials in this area of applications. This forms a part of efforts to achieve the global vision 2025 i.e to reduce the fuel consumption by automobile and aerospace vehicles by at least 75 %. Many researchers have identified advanced composites as suitable materials in this regard. Among the common matrices used for the development of advanced composites, epoxy resin has attained a dominance among its counterparts because of its excellent properties including chemical, thermal and electrical resistance properties, mechanical properties and dimensional stability. This review is a reflection of the extensive study on the currently ongoing research aimed at development of epoxy resin hybrid nanocomposites for engineering applications. In this paper, brief explanation has been given to different terms related to the research work and also, some previous works (in accordance with materials within authors’ reach) in the area of the ongoing research have been reported.
Authors and Affiliations
S. A. Bello , J. O. Agunsoye , S. B. Hassan , M. G. Zebase Kana , I. A. Raheem
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