Numerical study of effective thermal condutivities of aluminium particulate reinforced epoxy matrix composites using fea

In this present article to calculate the Aluminum (Al) particulates reinforced epoxy composite of thermal conductivity experimentally and analytically. Measured thermal conductivity of the aluminum particulate strengthened epoxy composites with different particulate concentrations 2.5 weight %, 5 weight % and 7.5 weight % of Al in epoxy resin ANSYS APDL 17.2 software is used. Observations can be made that with 2.5% weight thermal conductivity has improved by around 1.4%, while with 5 weight % the thermal conductivity has improved by around 11.5% and with 7.5% weight thermal conductivity has improved by around 17% which is substantially higher than epoxy lattice. The conductivity values obtained with the investigative ones compared with FEM results. The FEM results reasonable agreement with experimental results.