Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

STUDY OF COMPRESSIVE FORCE EFFECT ON BIOCOMPOSITE

Neenu Poonia, Vinod Kadam, Neelam M. Rose and Saroj Yadav

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study the influence of compressive force on mechanical (i.e. tensile strength andbulk density) and thermal properties of rice straw reinforced composites. The composite was prepared byHand lay-up method. Different Compressive force were tried; namely, 15 kg, 20 kg, 25 kg and 30 Kg. Theresults revealed that 25 kg of compressive force exhibited the best tensile strength and thermal propertieswhile increase in properties with increase of compressive force after a certain content it starts decreasing. Itwas found that rice straw fibre can be a good candidate for the reinforcement fibre of high performancebiodegradable composites.