ASSESSMENT OF PARTICULATES MATRIX RATIO AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF GRANITE PARTICULATES REINFORCED EPOXY COMPOSITE

Influence of epoxy content and granular size of granite in processing of prepared PMC using epoxy polymeric matrix reinforced with granite particulates has been investigated. The percentage of epoxy content, granite granular ratio and Compressive load are the parameters used for the study. An L27 orthogonal array and ANOVA were used to emphasize the contribution of individual parameters. The test samples subjected to compression test recorded a high compressive strength of 116 MPa for 20 percentage of weight epoxy and 50-50 granite particulate ratio.