Erosion Response of Natural Fiber Composites

Solid particle erosion is a typical wear mode encountered by engineering and structural components such as exhaust fans, helicopter blades, structures in dusty and mining sites, deserts etc. This book presents a comprehensive account on how polymer composites respond to such erosion and how a judicious selection of the reinforcing elements can be made to obtain the optimum design of composites. Erosion characteristics of Jute-Epoxy composites filled with silicon carbide is taken as a case study. Significant parameters affecting the erosion wear rate are identified. Prediction of wear response of such composites is also discussed.

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Alok Kumar Jha erwarb 2007 den B.E. in Maschinenbau an der Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, und 2009 bzw. 2016 den M.Tech. und Ph.D. am National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. Sein Forschungsgebiet umfasst Maschinendesign, Verbundwerkstoffe und mobile Robotik.