Study of Mechanical Properties of Jute-Banana-Glass Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composites under Various Post Curing Temperature
With recent developments in technology and science, we have been depending heavily on synthetic materials for various applications. In the present work, jute, banana and glass fibers are reinforced with epoxy resin in alternative positioning and various probabilities at different post curing temperature to form sandwich type composites. The composite block was cured at room temperature for 24hrs. The cold cured composite block was then post cured at various post curing temperature of 30°C, 60°C, 90°C, 120°C, 150°C and 180°C and 3KPa pressure in the hot press for 10minutes. The tensile and flexural properties of the composites obtained at different post curing temperature were studied. The morphology of the tensile fracture was studied using scanning electron microscopy analysis.