In addition to their traditional uses, bamboo, jute, and coir have important non-traditional uses in the aerospace, construction, furniture, biomedical, and auto industries. For unconventional applications, these natural fibers must be converted into reinforced composite materials. These composite materials are strong for their weight, have a high ratio of strength to weight, are renewable, and are safe for the earth. Epoxy composites reinforced with bamboo, jute, and coir were developed and characterized in this work. The composites were fabricated with fixed 50 wt. % of epoxy resin as binder material with varying other fiber fillers by press formation. Coir fiber wt. % was fixed at 10% and bamboo and jute fiber wt. % were varied to evaluate the consequences. Bamboo fiber wt. % varied to 30%, 25%, 20%, 15% respectively. Jute fiber wt. % varied to 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% respectively. The result showed that mechanical strength and water absorption increased, and the density decreased as the jute fiber wt.% increased. It was additionally determined that the composites that were treated with sodium hydroxide had better physical and mechanical characteristics than the composites that were not treated with sodium hydroxide.
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