Impact Strength and Hardness Properties of Banana Pseudo‐Stem Filled Unplastisized PVC Composites

Abstract

A dynamical two‐dimensional problem of a homogeneous transversely isotropic fibre‐reinforced generalized thermoelastic solid with an overlying acoustic fluid layer has been considered to investigate disturbance due to mechanical load. Laplace and Fourier transform techniques are applied to solve the problem. Uniformly distributed and linearly distributed forces are applied to illustrate the utility of the approach. A numerical inversion technique has been applied to obtain the solution in the physical domain. Numerical results are obtained and presented graphically to show the effect of anisotropy along with the comparison of homogeneous transversely isotropic fibre‐reinforced generalized thermoelastic solid and isotropic elastic solid.

Citation

Kumar, R., Rani Gupta, R. and Kumar, K. (2009), "Impact Strength and Hardness Properties of Banana Pseudo‐Stem Filled Unplastisized PVC Composites", Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 283-288. https://doi.org/10.1163/157361109789017014