Investigation of mechanical and wear characteristic of Banana/Jute fiber composite A. Suresh a , L. Jayakumar b , A. Devaraju a a Department of Mechanical Engineering, Adhi College of Engineering and Technology, Kancheepuram-631 605, Tamilnadu, India b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvanamalai-606 603, Tamilnadu, India article info Article history: Received 18 March 2020 Received in revised form 10 July 2020 Accepted 19 July 2020 Available online xxxx Keywords: Banana stems fiber Jute fiber Epoxy resin Mechanical and Wear Properties Coefficient of friction Scanning Electron Microscopy analysis abstract Nowadays, Organic fiber composites are utilized in different designing applications to expand the quality, upgrade the carrying load, and reduce the product cost. Untreated banana and jute fiber are taken to develop a hybrid natural composite for the current investigation. The specimen was produced using epoxy resin-LY556 as the matrix content and HY951 as hardener in compliance with the ASTM D-3039 / D-256 specification. The fibers are randomly chocked fiber using the hand-layup manufacturing technique. The wear tests were performed using an ASTM-G99 standard Pin-on - Disk wear tester. Wear test performed on pre- pared standard specimen with different percentages. It utilized to locate the most significant parameter that impacts the reactions. The outcomes showed that the applied load fundamentally impacts the reactions con- trasted with sliding velocity and sliding distance. Ó 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-nd/4.0) Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of ICAMMM 2020. 1. Introduction Organic fibers are found to be larger than synthetic fibers with properties such as lower weight, rarity, environmentally friendly, high specific strength, etc. However, it is a number of drawbacks such as poor surface characteristics, more absorption of moisture, variations in fiber quality, etc. Such natural fiber composites are widely used on in the automotive, packaging, aerospace, building and construction industries [1]. The capacity of the natural fibre- reinforced composites to carry tensile load is found to increase with the fiber content to an optimum level and then start to decline [2]. It has an honest calorific value, has excellent mechanical prop- erties and is incinerated for energy recuperation, and is uncommon and cost effective. It is green non-abrasive and bio-degradable nat- ural fibers. This ecologically inviting element makes materials in designing markets, for example, car and private businesses extre- mely in vogue [3]. The combination of natural fibers with optical fibers increases tensile and bending strength and are mostly used in medium fibers[4]. Banana fiber can currently be a waste of banana cultivation, and so these fibers can often be obtained for industrial purposes without any additional costs [5]. In Bangladesh, China, India, Thailand and the UK, Jute is abun- dantly grown. The jute fibers are removed from the fibrous bark of the jute plants, with a diameter of around 25 mm at the bottom. The matured plants hamper, bond and water over four weeks dur- ing which bark is completely decomposed and fibers exposed. The fibers are then manually removed from the trunks, washed and dried from the sun [6]. Temesgen Berhanu et al., manufactured Jute-Polypropylene composites by pressure shaping procedure. The heap level of the fiber fortification was differed. The impact of weight level of jute fortification the mechanical properties of the material was explored and was accounted for that the mechanical properties of the composites significantly improved with the expansion of 40% of jute fiber support [7]. Devaraju et al., reasoned that the mix of banana and sisal gives the wonderful mechanical properties by utilizing epoxy (LY556) [8]. Despite the fact that the sensible research work has done to improve the mechanical properties of characteristic fiber compos- ite, it’s not distributed a lot of papers on BPSF/JF composite. Subse- quently, during this work, an exertion has taken to manufacture distinctive BPSF/JF composite and its mechanical practices have assessed. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.426 2214-7853/Ó 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of ICAMMM 2020. Materials Today: Proceedings xxx (xxxx) xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Materials Today: Proceedings journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/matpr Please cite this article as: A. Suresh, L. Jayakumar and A. Devaraju, Investigation of mechanical and wear characteristic of Banana/Jute fiber composite, Materials Today: Proceedings, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.426