Fabrication and Testing of Biodegradable Composite

Abstract

The conventional materials like iron, mild steel, cast iron etc is having good mechanical properties. Hence they will be used in structural engineering applications. These conventional materials are having some defects like formation of rust, low weight to strength ratio, high production cost. To overcome this defect the engineers are fabricating the composite materials. The composites will exhibit peculiar properties like different strengths in different direction, rust resistant, high strength to weight ratio. But these composites will be polluting the environment. Now the natural fiber composites are wildly used in automobile industry. The natural fibers and resins are used to fabricate an eco friendly composite material. Lack of resources and increasing environment pollution has evoked great interest in the research of materials that are friendly to our health and environment. Biopolymer composites fabricated from natural fibers is currently the most promising areas in polymer sciences. This is designed to assess the possibility of fiber as reinforcing material in composites. Urea formaldehyde resin was synthesized used as matrix and made a stiffened panel to conduct a tensile test. In this paper it is aimed to explain the all possible ways to use natural composites in an automobile. The main advantage of using natural fibers is its degradability and light weight. They are environmentally friendly and also increase the fuel economy the urea formaldehyde resin reinforced with bandage cotton fiber of different dimensions used for making of laminates.