Research Article
Mechanical Properties of Bone Particulate and E-Glass Fiber
Reinforced Hybrid Polymer Composite
Sisay Walle Mekonen,
1
Sivaprakasam Palani ,
1
B. Ravi ,
2
Samson Mekbib Atnaw ,
1
Melaku Desta ,
1
and Yohanes Regassa
1
1
Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering,
Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Swarna Bharathi Institute of Science and Technology, Khammam, Telangana, India
Correspondence should be addressed to Sivaprakasam Palani; shiva@aastu.edu.et
Received 6 May 2022; Accepted 7 June 2022; Published 24 June 2022
Academic Editor: V. Vijayan
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e present study is focused on investigating the mechanical properties of hybrid polymer composites. e reinforcement
materials are animal bone (ox) particulate and E-glass fiber. e matrix material is epoxy resin. e following combinations are
considered for investigation: (a) bone particulate weight percent (20%, 30%, and 40%), (b) E-glass fiber weight percent (20%, 30%,
and 40%), and (c) bone particulate (10%, 20%, and 30%) and E-glass fiber (30%, 20%, and 10%) with epoxy resin 60% by weight
percent. e test specimens are prepared as per the required ASTM standard for tensile, compressive, and flexural tests. e test
results show that maximum tensile and compressive strength observed in 40% of E-glass fiber with 60% of epoxy matrix,
correspondingly, is 254.964 MPa and 37.52 MPa. e maximum flexural strength observed in E-glass fiber reinforced composites
is 250.43 MPa.
1. Introduction
Composite material is the combination of two or more
materials with different physical and chemical properties to
get a new desirable property, which is suitable for the
required application [1, 2]. e reinforcing can be in the
form of fiber, particles, or sheets. e reinforcing material
is embedded by another material, which is called the
matrix. e matrix material is mainly a polymer, whereas
the fiber material can be metallic, ceramic, or polymer. In a
composite material, the fiber is stiffer and stronger than the
matrix, which leads to the primary load carrying member
[3]. e composite material has been used other than the
structural application. It has been used for electrical,
thermal, tribological, and environmental application [4].
Composite material has a new generation of materials that
can be used as structural materials in the fast-growing
industries of automobiles and aerospace. A composite
material is a man-made material in which two or more
materials with different properties are combined. e
properties of composite materials depend on length, size,
orientation, volume/weight, and fiber fraction. Today,
consumers and industrial markets are seeing an increase in
the daily use of compounds. In the future, due to better
performance in different measures, materials used in
engineered products will be replaced by composite mate-
rials. For this reason, composite materials are used in
different fields of application, such as aerospace, marine
technology, chemical industry, automotive industry, con-
struction, electricity, and other fields of application [5].
Hybrid composite materials must be composed of two or
more different reinforcing materials and matrix materials.
Due to the shearing effect of reinforcing fibers, this
composite material has higher mechanical properties than
simple reinforced fiber composite materials. Hybrid
composites offer a wide range of applications, including
aerospace interiors, naval, civil building, industrial,
sporting goods [6], and interior and exterior automotive
Hindawi
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Volume 2022, Article ID 5902616, 7 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5902616