To Study and Evaluate the Tensile Strength, Impact Strength and Flexural Strength of Randomly Oriented Short Banana and E-glass Fiber Composite Materials

Abstract

Fiber reinforced polymer composites are having superior strength, easy to fabricate and, their production cost is low compares with neat polymer resins, so these are majorly used in many variety of applications. Reinforcement used in composite is either natural or synthetic. Synthetic fiber such as carbon, glass, etc. is higher cost of production so there applications are in limited fields. Even though they have high specific strength. Recently due to many advantages of natural fiber-based composites, their applications are more in various fields. This paper explores mechanical properties in randomly oriented short fiber composites. Banana fiber and E-Glass fiber having length of 6 mm are used as reinforcement and epoxy resinis used as matrix in composites. Different samples are made by using volume fraction method. Samples are prepared according to ASTM Standards. The Mechanical properties such as Tensile Strength, Impact Strength and Flexural Strength were tested. The present investigation revealed that the Banana and E-Glass fiber composites properties are increase as the volume fraction increased. E-glass fiber compositeis greatly influence the banana composite.