INVESTIGATIONS OF DIRECT SUNLIGHT CURING OVER ARTIFICIAL UV CURING OF COMPOSITES FOR STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS.

Abstract

Current world scenarios demand the need of making fabrication more sustainable with renewable energy sources as it plays a vital role in global sustainability. The technological and scientific advancement along with population growth in exponential rate demands more electricity and the production of energy is slighter as per demand put forward by the vast population which leads a massive power crisis in all over the world especially developing nations like India. The area of composites has obtained great application interest in a number of predominant fields from consumer products to aerospace. Hence lot of energy is utilized from non-renewable sources to fabricate the enormous number of composites. Utilization of renewable source of energy in fabrication of materials will result in a decreasing energy demand. The sustainable power or energy sources are hypothetical approaches to produce energy from everlasting limitless standard assets. Sun, the everlasting source of light is renewable energy source which consists of ultraviolet rays, infrared rays and visible light rays. Curing of fiber reinforced in light sensitive photopolymer composites is usually done with the aid of UV sources. An investigation of curing the above mentioned type of composite with the help of UV from direct Sunlight is carried out in this study. Sunlight curing of composites will help to explore its usefulness as a sustainable, renewable as well as cost-effective production technique without unacceptable sacrifices of mechanical properties. This technique will eventually reduce a vast amount on energy demand and can be considered as a sustainable technique.