• Neha Sah
• Alka Goel
• Arun Kumar Chaudhary

Abstract The primary purpose of this research was to find out a novel yet cost-effective way of putting the chicken feathers, the presumed waste of poultry industry, into some useful applications by developing composites reinforced with differential proportion and form of the fibers. Pure chicken fibers and its nonwoven mat structure were made into composite forms and tested for their tensile strength, compressive strength, flexural strength and impact strength. It was found that composite with least chicken fiber loading was better in tensile strength, while, the flexural strength of all the composites was far better than the controlled sample. The compressive strength was found endurable for low load bearing and economic applications. However, no favorable improvement was observed in the impact strength of all the tested samples. It can, therefore, be concluded that the use of chicken fibers for composite applications must primarily rely on low cost and weight reduction owing to the lump of environmental problems arising due to their unsettlement.

Keywords: Chicken feather fiber, protein fibers, nonwovens, technical textiles, composites

"Mechanical Behavior of Chicken Fiber Augmented Epoxy Composites ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.1074-1082, January 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDW06174.pdf

"Mechanical Behavior of Chicken Fiber Augmented Epoxy Composites ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp1074-1082, January 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDW06174.pdf