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The incorporation of natural fibres such as sisal/jute with glass fiber composites has gained increasing applications both in many areas of Engineering and Technology. The aim of this study is to evaluate mechanical properties such as tensile and flexural properties of hybrid glass fiber-sisal/jute reinforced epoxy composites. Microscopic examinati...
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... Table 1 compares the properties of some different natural fibers with different microfibril orientations. [32,[35][36][37][38][39] According to Lertwattanaruk and Suntijitto [40], the chemical compositions of natural fibers are different due to cultivation methods and environmental conditions such as soil, water, air, and chemicals used. Table 2 presents the chemical components of the industry's most commonly used dried plant fibers with the average amount (% by weight) of the compositions. ...
The use of plant fibers in cementitious composites has been gaining prominence with the need for more sustainable construction materials. It occurs due to the advantages natural fibers provide to these composites, such as the reduction of density, fragmentation, and propagation of cracks in concrete. The consumption of coconut, a fruit grown in tropical countries, generates shells that are improperly disposed of in the environment. The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the use of coconut fibers and coconut fiber textile mesh in cement-based materials. For this purpose, discussions were conducted on plant fibers, the production and characteristics of coconut fibers, cementitious composites reinforced with coconut fibers, cementitious composites reinforced with textile mesh as an innovative material to absorb coconut fibers, and treatments of coconut fiber for improved product performance and durability. Finally, future perspectives on this field of study have also been highlighted. Thus, this paper aims to understand the behavior of cementitious matrices reinforced with plant fibers and demonstrate that coconut fiber has a high capacity to be used in cementitious composites instead of synthetic fibers.
... Ganiron [16] revealed that the addition of human hair improved the load-bearing capacity of pavements when added to the conventional cement-asphalt mixture. Ramesh indicated that sisal fberreinforced GFRP possesses superior tensile properties than jute-reinforced GFRP [17]. Munde and Ingle [18] used theoretical models such as parallel and series, Halpin-Tsai, modifed Halpin-Tsai, and the Hirsch model for evaluating the mechanical properties. ...
... In its 12-year lifespan, sisal produces 180-250 leaves with commercially usable sizes of 1.5-2 m [209]. Because of their high cellulose content (73%), sisal fibers have good mechanical properties and are widely utilized in a diverse range of industries, including the automobile industry, shipping, elevator fiber core cables, packing, construction, and so on [210,211]. The study found that composites with 40% sisal fiber reinforcement performed better than those with other plant fiber reinforcements in terms of mechanical performance [212]. ...
Reducing energy consumption and minimizing environmental impacts have been significant factors in expanding the applicability of plant fiber-reinforced composites across a variety of industries. Plant fibers have major advantages over synthetic fibers, including biodegradability, light weight, low cost, non-abrasiveness, and acceptable mechanical properties. However, the inherent plant fiber properties, such as varying fiber quality, low mechanical properties, moisture content, poor impact strengths, a lack of integration with hydrophobic polymer matrices, and a natural tendency to agglomerate, have posed challenges to the development and application of plant fiber composites. Emphasis is being placed on overcoming this limitation to improve the performance of plant fiber composites and their applications. This study reviews plant fiber-reinforced composites, focusing on strategies and breakthroughs for improving plant fiber composite performance, such as fiber modification, fabrication, properties, biopolymers, and their composites with industrial applications like automotive, construction, ballistic, textiles, and others. Furthermore, Pearson rank correlation coefficients were used in this review to assess the relationship between the chemical composition of plant fibers with their physical and mechanical properties. If researchers study the behavior of plant fibers using correlation coefficients, it will be easier to combine plant fibers with a polymer matrix to develop a new sustainable material. Through this review study, researchers will learn more about the strategic value of these materials and how well they work in different real-world situations.
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... Epoxy composites have been reinforced using mixtures of GF and sisal/jute fibers [55]. The fibers were laid to generate multiple layers in the dry state, and epoxy resin was added to the multi-layers to wet the fibers and was later cured. ...
... In general, the synergetic effects from the hybridized composite materials result in better performance than those predicted by the rule of hybrid mixtures [56]. In one study, a mixture of GF and CF was thermally compounded with polypropylene (PP) [55]. The strength of the hybridized composite samples showed a positive deviation from the elastic modulus and showed no existence of a hybrid effect. ...
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... Ganiron [16] revealed that the addition of human hair improved the load-bearing capacity of pavements when added to the conventional cement-asphalt mixture. Ramesh indicated that sisal fberreinforced GFRP possesses superior tensile properties than jute-reinforced GFRP [17]. Munde and Ingle [18] used theoretical models such as parallel and series, Halpin-Tsai, modifed Halpin-Tsai, and the Hirsch model for evaluating the mechanical properties. ...
Sisal is the most commonly used natural fiber in polymer composites due to its high strength, durability, and ability to stretch. In this present work, sisal and human hair were used as reinforcement for epoxy resin-based hybrid composites, and their effect on the mechanical properties was reported. Four composite plates with fiber volume fractions of 10%, 20%, 30%, and 40% were fabricated by the hand lay-up method. Chopped sisal fiber and human hair of 30 mm length were mixed with epoxy resin to fabricate the composites. In addition, high-speed steel (HSS) drills were used to study the influence of drilling parameters such as speed, feed, and drill point angle on the quality of the drilling. Three factors with three levels were considered for the design of the experiment. The drilling parameters were optimized using Grey Relational Analysis and the Taguchi method for the reduction of delamination. The experimental results indicate that a flexural strength of 38 MPa was achieved in a 60% epoxy, 20% sisal, and 20% human hair composite. NI vision assistant software was used to process the images taken on the drilled holes using the Matrix Vision camera. The optimization results showed that the feed rate played a pivotal role in deciding the delamination on the entry side of the hole. In contrast, the drill point angle significantly affects the delamination at the exit side of the hole. Better quality holes are achieved with a cutting speed of 2500 rpm and a feed rate of 50 m/min.
... Senthilnathan et al. [117] reported that human hair/coconut coir/glass fiber/human hair composites have considerably better impact strength, flexibility, and double shear strength than GFRP. Previous research [60] analyzed the failure behavior of sisal/glass and jute/glass composite samples under tensile and flexural loads using SEM ( Figure 32). Their results showed that composite consisting of sisal fiber and GFRP performs better in the tensile test, whereas composite jute/glass performs better in the flexural test. ...
... SEM image of Jute-GFRP sample after tensile test (modified from[60]). ...
... SEM images of the (a) sisal/glass fiber and (b) jute/glass fiber composites after the tensile test and (c) sisal/glass fiber and (d) jute/glass fiber composites after the flexural test (modified from[60]). ...
Research on natural-fiber-reinforced polymer composite is continuously developing. Natural fibers from flora have received considerable attention from researchers because their use in biobased composites is safe and sustainable for the environment. Natural fibers that mixed with Carbon Fiber and or Glass Fiber are low-cost, lightweight, and biodegradable and have lower environmental influences than metal-based materials. This study highlights and comprehensively reviews the natural fibers utilized as reinforcements in polyester composites, including jute, bamboo, sisal, kenaf, flax, and banana. The properties of composite materials consisting of natural and synthetic fibers, such as tensile strength, flexural strength, fatigue, and hardness, are investigated in this study. This paper aims to summarize, classify, and collect studies related to the latest composite hybrid science consisting of natural and synthetic fibers and their applications. Furthermore, this paper includes but is not limited to preparation, mechanism, characterization, and evaluation of hybrid composite laminates in different methods and modes. In general, natural fiber composites produce a larger volume of composite, but their strength is weaker than GFRP/CFRP even with the same number of layers. The use of synthetic fibers combined with natural fibers can provide better strength of hybrid composite.
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This study used a hand layup process to create tri-layer hybrid composites composed of snake grass fiber (SGF) and jute fiber (JF). Two types of hybrid composites were investigated: jute/snake grass/jute (J/S/J) and snake grass/jute/snake grass (S/J/S). The fabricated composites were subjected to mechanical characterization and water absorption studies to verify their compatibility for various applications. The outcome revealed that the J/S/J hybrid sample shows the highest tensile and flexural strength at 68.46 and 78.62 MPa, respectively. This is due to stacking the maximum-strength JF as an exterior layer in the hybrid J/S/J sample. Meanwhile, the S/J/S composite shows a very high impact strength value of 4.45 kJ/mm 2 due to the placement of SGF at the outermost layer. It leads to absorbing more impact energy at sudden load applications. Water absorption studies revealed that the S/J/S composite absorbed more moisture than the J/S/J composite. Furthermore, the S/J/S composite exhibited greater biodegradability than the J/S/J composite based on soil burial experiments. From this study, it can be concluded that the J/S/J composite is suitable for structural applications because it has higher tensile and flexural qualities. In contrast, the S/J/S composite can be employed under damping conditions because it has better impact strength.
... 19 Presence of bidirectional woven glass fabric in sisal fiber reinforced epoxy composite showed uniform tensile strength in all directions. 20 An increased glass fiber content in woven jute/bidirectional glass fiber woven fabric reinforced polyester composites caused a decrease in their impact energy absorption. Composite samples with thickness of 6.1 mm, 17.1% of jute fiber weight fraction and 25.2% of glass weight fraction recorded better impact properties at maximum peak load. ...
... 23 Similar trend was observed with juteglass fiber epoxy composites, when glass fiber bidirectional woven fabric was used as a skin material. 20 The impact strength of plant (jute fiber plane fabric)-glass fibers reinforced polymer hybrid composites depended on their fiber contents. 24 The tensile and flexural properties of synthetic fiber composites increased by decreasing the weight content of palmyra, 25 coir, 26 bamboo 27 and roystonearegia 28 fibers. ...
Development of new hybrid laminated composites of Kevlar-29 (K-29)/banana fiber ( Musa acuminata) mats to meet future demand for fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites has been investigated. The different ply-stacking sequenced Kevlar (K)/natural (N) banana reinforced epoxy polymeric hybrid composite samples were designated as KN1, KN2, KN3, KN4, KN5 and KN6, in addition to NN7 and KK8 for single or non-hybrid FRP (control) composite samples. The ply-stacking effects on mechanical properties of all the laminated composite were investigated. The maximum tensile, flexural, impact and interlaminar shear strengths (ILSS) were obtained with sample KN4, because of the stacking of its Kevlar and natural banana mats, which was K2/N4/K2 of 8 layers and different from other stacking sequences. The percentage improvements on tensile strength of sample KN4 when compared with other hybrid composite samples KN1, KN2, KN3, KN5 and KN6 were 6.3, 4.4, 3.6, 13.1 and 11.3%, respectively. While, same optimum sample KN4 recorded highest flexural strength among hybrid samples with percentage improvements of 122.19, 70.97, 31.03 and 83.68% when compared with other hybrid samples KN2, KN3, KN5 and KN6, respectively. Similar trend of results was obtained for their tensile and flexural moduli. But, both hybrid composite samples KN3 and KN4 recorded higher impact strengths of 3.0 and 2.8 J, respectively, when compared with other hybrid counterparts. The tensile and flexural strengths of sample KN4 were 147.48 and 223.69 MPa, respectively. The tensile properties of various theoretical model were compared with experimental values.
... Among all sets of natural fibers available in the market, sisal and jute play the major role and are extensively employed in most of the industrial and commercial applications. In fact, the main reasons behind those fibers in the field of natural fiber reinforced composites are their cheapness and easy availability and processing 10 . Sisal is a fiber extracted from the Agave plant that is native to Tropical america. ...
... Properties of sisal and jute fibers[10][11][12] . ...
... mm were subjected to a flexural test at 2 mm/ min in accord with ASTM D 790. At 1 mm/min and a load of 10kN, an Instron (8801) UTM was employed to assess the compressive mechanical characteristics of composite scaffolds in accord with ASTM D 695 [27,28]. The mechanical properties were measured for each loading order, and the average values were afterwards determined as a means of validating the results. ...
The objective of this research is to examine the mechanical characteristics of a composite material made from Jute fiber (JF) and sisal fiber (SF) for use in orthopedic long bone plates. JF/epoxy forms the exterior layers of the JF/SF hybrid composite, whereas SF/epoxy forms the inside layers. Similarities between the composite plate and the skeleton have been noted (spongy interior cancellous matrix and rigid exterior cortical). Samples of the manufactured hybridized sandwich composites were subjected to experimentation for finding tensile, micro hardness, compressive and flexural testing to determine their mechanical properties. The experimentation is made on the standard test specimen. In addition, the contact angle (CA) and water absorption of the Sisal Fiber/epoxy and Jute Fiber/Sisal Fiber/epoxy composites is determined to get a better idea of their wettability. In addition, the ethanol infiltration technique was used to calculate the porosity of the JF/SF compo sites scaffold specimen. The mechanical tests reveal that the JF/SF hybridized composites have a bending strength of 345 MPa, UTS of 148 MPa, and a compressive strength of 382 MPa; moreover, the bending tests reveal a Young's modulus of (21.56 GPa), which is higher than the tensile modulus (6577 MPa) and compressive modulus (2047 MPa). Research into the scaffolds' wettability revealed that the JF/SF composites were hydrophobic (CA = 92.41), absorbing 3.436% less water than the SF/composites (6.953%). Hydrophilicity (CA = 54.28 ± 1.71) is evident in SF composites. The results of the experiments show that the JF/SF hybrid composite has potential as a bone fracture plate material in orthopedics.
