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Vol.4 , No. 1, Publication Date: Aug. 8, 2017, Page: 1-6
| [1] | Ovat Friday Aje, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cross River University of Technology, Calabar, Nigeria. |
| [2] | Etiese Markson Idorenyin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria. |
| [3] | Anyandi Josephat Adie, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cross River University of Technology, Calabar, Nigeria. |
Fibre-reinforced polymer composites materials have several applications as classes of structural materials. This is due to their ease of fabrication, relatively low cost of production. The fibre which serves as a reinforcement in reinforced plastics may be synthetic or natural. In the present work, investigation has been carried out to study the mechanical characterization of Nigerian long bamboo fiber-reinforced polymer composite, this is based on the fibre content of the developed composite material. The choice and use of bamboo fibre is based on the abundance of this natural fibre in Nigeria. The objective of this work is to study the effect of fiber loading and mechanical behavior of bamboo fiber reinforced epoxy composites. From the result obtained, it shows that, the mechanical properties of the developed composite material were found to be optimum volume fraction of fibre percentage of between 10% and 15%.
Keywords
Nigerian, Tensile Strength, Flexural Strength, Hardness, Bamboo Fiber
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