Abstract
Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites are environment friendly apart from being biodegradable. However, due to their poor mechanical properties, industrial applications of structural components haven’t been gained much attention. Therefore, this present investigation estimates the consequences of carbon and glass fiber hybridization on mechanical properties of flax and kenaf fiber reinforced polymer hybrid composites. There are four types of hybrid composites (C2F3C2,C2K3C2,G2F3G2,G2K3G2) as well as plain Carbon (C7), Glass (G7), Flax (F7) and Kenaf (K7) are fabricated by hand lay-up technique. The results revealed that C2F3C2 type hybrid composite has highest flexural strength (364.4Mpa) whereas, maximum impact strength (92.9 kJ/m2) is observed from G2F3G2 type hybrid composite among all hybrid composites. Hence, natural/synthetic fiber reinforced polymer hybrid composites may create opportunities to be used in automobile, aerospace, military, biomedical, infrastructure and transportation applications.
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