Experimental Study on Silicon Carbide Composite Laminated Plates

Abstract

In this w ork an attempt has been made to experimentally investigate the mechanical properties and natural frequencies of the silicon carbide composite laminated plates in simply supported and fixed - fixed boundary condition. The composite plates used are Sic -glass fiber reinforced composites which was the mixture of silicon carbide with glass fiber reinforcement. The mechanical properties tested in this workare tensile strength, flexural strength and hardness of the composite plates. Tensile strength and flexural strength of the composites has been carried out on Universal Testing Machine of capacity of 1000 KN and hardnesstest on Vickers hardness machine. Free vibration test is also performed on the plates with simply supported and fixed -fixed boundary conditions.