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In recent years composites have attracted substantial importance as a potential structural material. The most basic and common attractive features composites that make them useful for industrial applications are low cost, light weights, high specific modulus, renewability and biodegradability. Rice Husk ceramics composites are an important area of interest these days for development of new composite materials. These composites are gaining importance due to their non-carcinogenic and bio-degradable nature. Keeping this in view the present research work has been under taken with an objective to explore the use of rice husk ash as potential filler in polymer composite and to study its wear behavior. To study the wear properties the components made from these rice husk ceramics is subjected to wear test using a Pin-on-Disc apparatus. Experiments have been conducted under laboratory conditions to asses the wear behaviour of the rice husk ceramic composites in polymer matrix. From these experimental result we can also draw a fair amount of conclusion about their mechanical behaviours also i.e under stress and tensile test, hardness test etc.

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Mr. Rabishankar Biswal was a student of NIT Rourkela,India. He graduated with a honors in Bachelors of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating from NIT Rourkela in June 2010 he works as an Assistant Manager in NMDC Ltd. He can be reached at his mail ´rabishankar.biswal@yahoo.co.in´ & ´rabishankar.nitrkl@gmail.com´.

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