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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND FLEXURAL RIGIDITY OF EPOXY GRANITE COMPOSITE MATERIAL

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Mechanical, Power, Production, Design and Mechatronics Engineering.

Abstract

In Egypt, large quantities of coarse granite wastes are produced annually during the quarrying operations of granite rocks. This waste represents a potentially useful source of material for a variety of applications such as a filler material in epoxy granite composite material. In this work a new eco-friendly composite material studied as a substitute for machine tools traditional materials, like cast iron, to produce better efficiency with lower cost. This study aims to investigate the mechanical properties of granite epoxy composite by using the local epoxy (kemapoxy 150) and the granite residues in the Egyptian quarries. The investigated processing variable was epoxy content, and the mechanical characterization ware carried out by compressive and flexural tests according to the ASTM standard method B. Commercially available, Aswan red granite was procured, crushed, and sieved to three size ranges from 0.150 to 8 mm, respectively. Epoxy ratios of 80:20, 85:15 have been used with granite aggregate size mix with small, medium, and coarse size proportions of 50:25:25 respectively for preparing the specimens with granite granular size range (0.150-8) mm. The results show that Epoxy granite composite with granite to epoxy ratio of 80:20% wt. induced the highest compressive strength (72.15 MPa) while the composite with the ratio of 85:15% wt. induced the highest flexural strength (20.1 MPa). Epoxy granite composite show superior results with respect to cement concrete, polyester concrete, and natural granite.

DOI

10.21608/jesaun.2021.61303.1033

Keywords

Epoxy-Granite, Composite materials, Compressive strength, Flexural rigidity, Resin ratio

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Omar

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Aeronautical Engineering, Institute of Aviation Engineering and Technology, Cairo, Egypt

Email

m.rizk2290@gmail.com

City

assiut

Orcid

0000-0003-1556-7985

First Name

Yasser

Last Name

Abdelrhman

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt

Email

yasser.abdelrhman@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut - Egypt

Orcid

0000-0001-8284-4028

First Name

Ibrahim

Last Name

M. Hassab

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt

Email

ibrahim.abdeldaiam@eng.au.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

wael

Last Name

M. Khierldeen

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt

Email

wael.khaireldin@ejust.edu.eg

City

Assiut - Egypt

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Volume

49

Article Issue

No 2

Related Issue

18888

Issue Date

2021-03-01

Receive Date

2021-02-06

Publish Date

2021-03-11

Page Start

198

Page End

214

Print ISSN

1687-0530

Online ISSN

2356-8550

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Research Paper

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1,438

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Publication Title

JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences

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https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/

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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND FLEXURAL RIGIDITY OF EPOXY GRANITE COMPOSITE MATERIAL

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23 Jan 2023