In the current scenario, Automobile Industries focuses on enhancing the strength and reducing the weight of body parts. The two wheelers mudguard is provided to prevent the dirts and sand particles in tire from entering and damaging other parts. Presently most of which are made from ABS/Polypropylene plastics. They are of high cost and not completely degradable. The attempt has been made to use strong and abundantly available glass fiber with coir fiber and sisal fiber as reinforcement in epoxy resin to make low cost, high strength and less weight substitute for mudguard. This process is based on the working principle of Hand Lay-up Method. The materials required in this process are E-Glass Fiber, Coir and Sisal Fiber, Epoxy Resin (LY556) and hardener (HY951). This method is used to manufacture the hybrid composite material of Glass Fiber with Coir Fiber of the required dimension. The Mechanical properties such as Tensile test and Compression Test has been done on both the composite material. From the Final Testing result, we conclude that the Glass Fiber with Coir Fiber has high strength and less weight substitute for manufacturing two-wheeler Mudguard.
Key words: Automobile, two wheelers, mudguard, polypropylene plastics, sisal fiber, coir fiber, composite material, mechanical properties
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