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ABSTRACT :- Now a days with growing consciousness combination of two may solve problem of low mechanical
about environment, biofabric reinforced composite strength in natural fibres. The hybrid component formed is
materials are replacing old traditional materials and their cheaper and easy to use.
demands are increasing day by day due to its superior and
valuable properties like high tensile strength, high strength V.P. Arthanarieswaran (1) evaluated mechanical properties of
to weight ratio ,lower cost ,light in weight, biodegradable banana and sisal fibre reinforced epoxy composites &
and easily recyclable. In the present work a hybrid of Influence of glass fibre hybridization. Stacking sequence of B,
banana and glass fibre has been reinforced with polyester S, BS, G/B/G, G/S/G, G/BS/G, G/B/G/B/G, G/S/G/S/G and
matrix .The mechanical properties like tensile strength, G/BS/G/BS/G by chopping Banana(B),Sisal (s) and woven E
flexural strength and shear strength are evaluated and Glass synthetic fibres reinforced with epoxy matrix and
compared. It is found that glass fibre composite shows Mechanical properties like tensile strength, flexural strength
good tensile strength, have high flexural strength and and impact strength were evaluated and compared. Scanning
shows maximum shear strength. Electron Microscope (SEM) was used to study the micro
structural behaviour of the tested specimen. Tests showed that
I. INTRODUCTION the addition of two and three layer of glass fibre can improve
Natural fibres when compared to artificial fibres have many the tensile strength by a factor of 2.34 and 4.13 respectively
properties which are superior to it. They have low weight, low also flexural properties were enhanced on bananasisal fibre
density, biodegradable have high specific strength etc. Natural with two layers of glass fibres rather than three layers and the
fibres reinforced composites found applications in building laminate with sisal and three glass ply offers better impact
and construction work are used in making of window frames strength.
panels, fencing, door shutters etc .These are used in
automobile industries and many more despite of its usefulness Ashish kumre et al (2) worked on reviewing mechanical
composites have lower strength and poor moisture resistance property of sisal glass fibre reinforced polymer composites .In
as compared to synthetic fibre. To overcome such problem a this work the natural fibre polymer composites was mixed
hybrid of banana and glass composite is made. Silica particles with the glass fibre, to enhance the mechanical property of
provides good strength and also prevent the moisture composite. In this work Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymers was
absorption by composites. Instead of thermoplastic resin mixed with sisal with various sisal fibre lengths (5, 10, and 15,
which is mainly limited to low temperature, thermosetting 20 mm) to increase Engineering and Technology applications.
resin i.e. unsaturated polyester is used which provides good Rahul Shrivastava et al (3) worked on Mechanical Properties
reinforcement. of Coir/ G Lass Fibre Epoxy Resin Hybrid Composite. In this
work both artificial and natural fibres were mixed so as to
Therefore best results may be seen by using natural fibre increase mechanical property of fibre. Naturally occurring coir
composites with synthetic materials. Fibre reinforced fibre and synthetic glass fibre mats are used as reinforcement
composites are most important composites which are used in while thermosetting polymeric resin Epoxy is used as matrix
last four decades due to its high specific strength and modules. material .Coir fibre was chemically treated with sodium
Mostly composites used high strength composites such as hydroxide to decrease its moisture absorption behaviour. Short
glass, graphite etc .There has been lot of work done on glass coir fibre /glass fibre mat hybrid composite was fabricated by
fibre reinforced polymer composite. The main advantage of hand-layup method
adding glass as a fibre in a banana composite is that it will
provide strength to composite. It will have properties of both Work confirmed that the mechanical properties of the
banana i.e natural as well as synthetic fibre. Banana as a composites changes with volume fraction and fibre length of
natural fibre will have high specific strength , low cost small the fibres.M.Ramesh et al (4) in their work comparatively
weight but for mechanical properties we use glass fibre. The
B. Flexural Strength Test done by using INSTRON make machine as per ATSM:D790
standard .
In this test , a beam is bend under three point loading Flexural strength = 3PL /2wt*wt
conditions and force required to bend is determined ,load is where
applied at the middle of component lit bends and fractures. P=Peak Load
This test is used to select the materials which can stand with L=Guage Length
loads without flexing. Three point flexural strength test is W=Width
T=Thickness
The samples of composite 1,2,3,4 and 5 of glass are tested for machine and following results are obtained for tensile strength
tensile strength ,flexural strength and shear strength in UTM produced below in table 2.
The graph is to be plotted between banana and glass fibre of glass in composite increases and decreases as content of
composite to measure the tensile strength of the composite and banana increases.
it shows that the tensile properties of fibre increases as content
The graph is to be plotted between banana and glass fibre of glass in composite increases and decreases as content of
composite to measure the Shear strength of the composite and banana increases.
it shows that the tensile properties of fibre increases as content
Below comparative graphical representation shows that & Shear Strength of glass fibre are better than that of Banana
mechanical properties i.e Tensile Strength, Flexural Strength fibre.
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