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In an area of increasing pollution and environmental degradation, it has become imperative to manufacture products that do not affect the environment. In the field of composite materials, Natural fiber, such as, luffa possess good reinforcing capability when properly compounded with polymers. The fiber is relatively inexpensive, originate from renewable resources and have high strength as others. Development of a simple manufacturing technique for luffa fiber composites that minimises fiber degradation and can be used in developing countries, is the main objective of our study. This paper deals with preparation and investigation of bio based composites of natural fibre in epoxy resin. Natural fibre used here luffa which are mixed with epoxy resin. This composite is manufactured using compression moulding process. Mechanical properties of each composite with and without treatment are determined through tensile, flexural, impact tests.

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T.Nirmal, V.Balaji, P.Balakrishnan, S.Mahendran, & A.Navaneethakrishnan. (2015). INVESTIGATION OF LUFFA FIBER REINFORCED EPOXY MATRIX COMPOSITES – STUDY ON ITS PROPERTIES AND EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION . International Journal of Intellectual Advancements and Research in Engineering Computations, 3(1), 183–187. Retrieved from https://ijiarec.com/ijiarec/article/view/1352