Synthesis and characterization of nano filled carbon fiber reinforced composites

Carbon fiber composites, particularly those with polymer matrix, have become the dominant advanced composite materials for aerospace, automobile, sporting goods, and other applications due to their high tensile strength, high modulus, low density, higher strength to weight ratio and reasonable cost This paper presents the development of mathematical model to predict mechanical properties of nano copper oxide (CuO) filled carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP). In this work composites are fabricated from PAN based unidirectional carbon fiber and different wt % of nano CuO particles dispersed in Araldite LY556 Epoxy resin through compression molding technique. As per ASTM standards tensile and compression test are carried out in Universal Testing Machine. Microstructure of samples has been investigated by scanning electron microscope (SEM). Hence the dispersion of reinforcement was noted. The results indicated that increase in weight % of nano CuO particles improves the the mechanical properties.