Adin, Mehmet Şükrü2023-03-082023-03-082022-07-02Adin, M. Ş. (2022). Investigation of mechanical properties of composites obtained from textile wastes. Batman Energy Summit, 30 June-02 July 2022, Batman, Turkey.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12402/4414The textile industry is one of the manufacturing sectors that pollutes the world the most. Since textile wastes are destroyed by burning traditionally, they cause great damage to the environment. Therefore, recycling of these wastes is of great importance. One of these recycling methods is their use in the production of composite materials, the application areas of which have increased in recent years. In this study, the mechanical properties of composite materials produced using cotton and polyester fabrics from waste textiles were investigated. It has been observed that 22% of the composite materials produced with reinforcement elements at different angles (0°, 45°, 90°) are reinforcement elements and 78% are resins. As a result of the tensile tests, the highest tensile strength value was obtained with the polyester fabric with 0° reinforcement angle as 55.72 MPa. It has been found that the increase in the reinforcement angles positively affects the tensile strength in cotton fabric reinforced composites, whereas this situation occurs in the opposite way in polyester fabric reinforced composites. When the highest tensile strength values of polyester fabric and cotton fabric reinforced composite samples were compared, it was seen that the sample using polyester fabric (55.72 MPa) had 69% higher tensile strength than the sample using cotton fabric (33.05 MPa). In addition, the elongation values of polyester fabric reinforced composites were higher than cotton fabric reinforced composites.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessTextileTextile WastesPolyesterCottonCompositeTensile StrengthConference Object