INVESTIGATION ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HEMP-E GLASS FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES

Natural fiber composite is currently a leading module in the world of composites. It is due to many of its features such as freely available, easy processing, low cost, ability to replace usage of Glass fiber (Synthetic fiber), better strength properties and ecofriendly. They find useful applications in various fields from domestic to automotive sector as of now. Natural fibers with good content of lignocellulose, low density, and better elongation percentage are chosen for manufacturing of composites of above mentioned applications. Unidirectional & Continuous natural fiber composites are said to be anisotropic and having predominant mechanical properties. While designing these composites out of many factors, amount or volume fraction of fibers also considered carefully. In this study untreated continuous Hemp fiber-Bi directional woven E Glass fiber reinforced hybrid polymer matrix composite laminates are developed and tested for its mechanical properties such as tensile, compression and flexural as per ASTM standards by varying fibers proportions. The obtained results yields that natural fiber composites performed equally or more than synthetic fibers such as Glass fibers.