Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Materials Today: Proceedings 18 (2019) 3174–3181 www.materialstoday.com/proceedings 2214-7853 © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the 9th International Conference of Materials Processing and Characterization, ICMPC-2019 ICMPC-2019 Thermal Characteristics of Sisal Composites Containing Charcoal Particles M. K. Gupta a* , Ajaya Bharti b , Binayaka Nahak a , Niraj Choudhary c , Anil Kumar d a Department of Mechanical Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj-211004, India b Department of Applied Mechanics, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj -211004, India c Department of Electrical Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj-211004, India d Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology Sultanpur -228118, India Abstract The present attempt is focused to investigate the outcome of charcoal particles loading on thermal properties of sisal composite. Sisal fibres were reinforced into epoxy matrix with a constant length (10 mm) and constant wt.% (30) to prepare the composites by hand lay-up method . Charcoal particles were homogeneously mixed into epoxy resin using magnetic stirrer at 1000 rpm with varying percentages (2, 4, 6, and 8). Thermal properties of prepared composites were analyzed using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) to measure the thermal stability and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) to measure the storage modulus, damping, loss modulus and glass transition temperature. The results showed a positive effect of incorporation of charcoal particles into epoxy on the thermal properties of sisal composites. In addition, thermal stability, glass transition temperature and storage modulus were also improved due to incorporation of charcoal particles. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the 9th International Conference of Materials Processing and Characterization, ICMPC-2019 Keywords: Sisal fibre; Polymer matrix; Charcoal filler; Dynamic mechanical property; Thermal properties. 1. Introduction In the recent past decades, global warming is a serious problem for researchers and scientists. In this context, they are trying to trounce the abundant use of synthetic polymers and fibres. Therefore, they are looking towards biodegradable natural fibres which have capability to replace the synthetic fibres because of its advantages (i.e. *Corresponding author. Tel.: +91-9454029454; fax: 0532-2545341 E-mail address: mkgupta@mnnit.ac.in, mnnit.manoj@gmail.com