ABSTRACT
228Polymer matrix composites (PMCs) have evoked a keen interest in recent times for potential applications in the industries, such as automotive, aerospace, marine, and so forth, owing to their superior strength to weight ratio. Literature shows that there is a lacuna in achieving a uniform distribution of reinforcement of composite materials in existing molding technology by addition of fly ash and silicon carbide. As such, a solemn attempt is made in the present chapter with an objective to develop linear low-density polyethylene based on the fly ash and silicon carbide particulates as reinforcement materials, so as to obtain homogenous dispersion of composite material with possible low costs. Injection molding technique is proposed and analyzed. Experiments are conducted by varying weight fractions of fly ash and silicon carbide. The output results have indicated that the developed method is quite successful to obtain a uniform dispersion of reinforcement in the PMCs. An increasing trend of hardness with density has been observed with weight percentage of fly ash and silicon carbide.
