Experimental Investigation of Mechanical Behaviour of Epoxy Based Jute / E-Glass Fiber Reinforced Hybrid Composites

Abstract

Naturally-derived natural fibres could replace glass, carbon, and other man-made fibres as reinforcement materials in polymer composites. Natural fibres such as jute are the most often utilised because of their availability, low density, low manufacturing costs, environmental impact, and good mechanical properties. A composite material consists of two or more materials with distinct properties. Hybrid composites are made up of synthetic fibres, natural fibres, and metallic fibres. This is referred to as hybridization. The yield strength, stiffness, high tensile to weight ratio, and other mechanical properties of hybridised materials are all improved. It's a technique for stiffening composite materials by incorporating the preferred reinforcing material into the same resin. Jute and E-glass hybrid composite specimens were made using the hand layup procedure and ASTM specifications. ASTM standards are followed when performing tensile, flexural, impact, hardness, and water absorption tests. The results revel that the tensile, flexural, impact and Hardness are maximum at T3 composition. It is found that flexural, impact, hardness value increases with increasing the jute fiber percentage. The percentage of water absorption in sea water specimens is higher than distilled water specimens. In tensile and flexural, specimens absorbed with distilled water exhibits high strength compared to sea water. Where as pure specimens exhibits higher strength compared to distilled and sea water absorbed specimens.