Role of Cenosphere Filler Addition on Three-body Abrasive Wear Performance of Hybrid Jute-glass Epoxy Composites

¹Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Skill Development and Technical Education Department, Odisha, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. Soma Dalbehera, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering,  Skill Development and Technical Education, Odisha, India, Orcid ID: 0000-0003-0266-9026, E-mail: [email protected]

Citation: Dalbehera S. (2026). Role of Cenosphere Filler Addition on Three-body Abrasive Wear Performance of Hybrid Jute-glass Epoxy Composites. Material Science. 8(1):42.

ABSTRACT

As per the recent study the three-body abrasive wear behaviour of particulate filled woven hybrid jute-glass (GJJG) epoxy composites have been described. The hybrid epoxy composites were fabricated and filled with (5-20) wt.% of cenosphere filler with a step of 5wt.%.In the present investigation, angular silica sand particles of size in the range (200-250) μm were used as dry abrasive. Abrasive wear tests were conducted on a dry sand rubber wheel abrasion tester (ASTM G65) under different loads (5-20) N at contact pressures of 1.89, 3.78, 5.68 and 7.6 N/cm² and abrading distances (143-2292m). Cenosphere is a hollow microsphere produced during phase transformation and thermochemical reaction of combustion of coal in thermal power plant. The filler addition has shown significant influence on three-body abrasive wear response of glass-jute hybrid epoxy composites at various loads. Abrasion resistance of unfilled and filled glass-jute epoxy composites strongly depends on the experimental test parameters such as applied load, sliding speed and abrasive particle size. The results indicate that the wear volume increases and specific wear rate decreases with addition of cenosphere content with improved abrasion resistance. Advanced optical microscopy was used to study the worn surface morphology to understand the mechanism involved in the abolition of materials. Microscopic studies of abraded surfaces help identifying the involved mechanisms and suggest that the distribution of cenosphere particles on the composites increases the abrasion resistance of the developed hybrid composites.

Keywords: Three-Body Abrasion, Wear Mechanism, Cenosphere, Surface Morphology, Abrasive Particle Size, Deformation, Specific Wear Rate, Tribolayers