Evaluation of mechanical behavior of banana fibre reinforced hybrid epoxy composites

Abstract

The applications of composite materials are escalating progressively in engineering and medical. Composite materials because of having better mechanical properties, thermal properties, static and dynamic properties had occupied major division in present scenario. This article deals with the fabrication of composite materials by using banana fibre, glass fibre, epoxy resin and evaluation of mechanical behavior of fabricated composite materials. Banana fibre and glass fibre are mixed with epoxy resin to get composite materials. Totally nine sample specimens were fabricated with increasing the fibre length. These composite materials were fabricated using hand lay-up technique. The tensile test, flexural (three-point bending) test, impact test and hardness test were evaluated and reported. The result shows that, the better mechanical behaviours were found in the composite specimen of 10 mm fibre length and 15% fibre loading.