Mechanical properties of bi – axial glass fiber and pistachio shell reinforced polyester composites

Abstract

Textile structures nowadays are widely used in technical application. Textile structures have many application areas because of their low density, low cost and high strength. Bi-axial warp knitted fabrics have excellent properties to improve the mechanical properties of composite structures because of various fiber direction opportunities. Glass fiber is the mostly used reinforcement material for composites. It is well known that glass fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites have good mechanical properties. The aim of this study is to use waste materials for producing reinforced composite structures. Composite layers produced with bi-axial knitted fabrics, pistachio’s shell and thermoset polyester resin.

Keywords

• Bi-axial knitted fabrics, composite materials, pistachio’s shell and polyester composites

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