Experimental Studies on Mechanical Behaviour of Banana Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Composite

The importance of natural fibre composites is increasing in automobile and plastic lumber and also in cosmetic applications. Natural fibres such as jute, banana, coir, palm, sisal, cellulose etc. are recycled as an additional to synthetic fibres e.g. Carbon glass etc. These fibres are useful to the synthetic fibres because of having renewable character, cost, acceptable specific strength properties, low enhanced energy recovery and biodegradability. The natural fiber composites provide better mechanical properties which have low specific mass for the essential of producing structural materials as housing, aerospace, automobiles, industries etc. natural fibers are also combined with other natural materials to obtain better mechanical properties. Banana fibre reinforced epoxy composites were ready for unlike weight content of fibres by using hand layup moulding method. Biological fibre-reinforced composite has the potential to improve its mechanical properties for a wide range of latent application. The properties of some natural fibres have been investigated and the reported results showed promising utilization of some of them as an alternative to glass fibre in many applications. In this present work treated banana fibers are used as the reinforcing material.