Certain investigations on mechanical properties and machinability of natural hybrid woven composites

Abstract

Composite materials, being one of a kind, have taken every field newlineof engineering by a swing. Many disadvantages and limitations faced in the newlineconventional metals and ceramics are made void in nil in composites and/or newlinesignificantly reduced of the negative effect because of the high customizable newlinecapacity of the composite. Though artificial composites emerged first and are newlinecurrently in place of application for various industrial needs, composites with newlinenatural fiber are gaining more momentum these days and are to have a huge newlinehold on the future too. The natural fibers are abundantly available, biodegradable, newlineinexpensive and eco-friendly in nature and due to this they are newlinewidely used in composite laminates. In addition to this, the green newlinemanufacturing motto is also diligently met by the natural fiber based newlineproducts. Natural fibers also find its place in the industrial and the academic newlinesector for product manufacturing and intense research and development. The newlinestructural, aerospace, defence and automotive industries are also newlinepredominantly using hybrid composite materials due to their higher specific newlinestrength, stiffness and fatigue characteristics. Polimer matrix reinforced with newlinenatural fiber are light in weight, has better stiffness, high modulus and newlinestrength. In spite of the aforementioned advantages, natural fibers have some newlinelimitations as well and they need to be rightly addressed in order to make it newlinemore competitive with the synthetic fibers. newline newline