Abstract
The green, biodegradable, and cost-effective properties of natural fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials have attracted significant interest when compared to synthetic polymer composites. Jute is a naturally occurring bast fiber that is inexpensive, durable, and often utilized. In contrast, glass is a composite material that is frequently used in various applications, despite its high cost and potential environmental risks. Owing to jute's superior mechanical properties, there is a great deal of potential for combining it with glass, which would lower the amount of glass used and the composite's overall cost. This study employed bleached jute fabric and non-woven glass fabric to develop neat jute, neat glass, and hybrid composites by using different stacking sequences. The composites were fabricated utilizing a thermoset polymer matrix by following the hand layup process. Subsequently, an investigation was carried out to examine the mechanical, physical, thermal, and morphological properties of these composites. Out of the developed samples, the neat jute presents the least tensile and bending strength at 31.35 MPa and 41.138 MPa respectively, whereas the neat glass composite demonstrates exceptional tensile and bending strengths at 132.03 MPa and 184.86 MPa respectively. In the case of hybrid samples, they exhibited mechanical capabilities that fell between neat jute and neat glass, which was attributed to the combination of glass with jute fabric and the placement of glass as the outer layer. Apart from that, we observed that the moisture take-up% and thermal conductivity of hybrids composite were within 4–4.3% and 0.28–0.32 Wm−1 K-1 respectively. Moreover, thermogravimetric analysis and morphological behavior were also assessed. However, this study suggested that jute and nonwoven glass fabric with different stacking sequences may be combined to create a reinforced hybrid composite that may have potential use in furniture, interior design, and inner sections of cars.
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