Effect Of Recycled Rubber Filler On The Mechanical Characteristics Of E-Glass/Epoxy Hybrid Composites- Avinash et. al Page 462 International Journal of Research (IJR) Vol-1, Issue-5, June 2014 ISSN 2348-6848 Effect Of Recycled Rubber Filler On The Mechanical Characteristics Of E-Glass/Epoxy Hybrid Composites Avinash N V 1 ,Pramod Kumar N 2 ,Sudheer K V 3 and Umashankar K S 4 Abstract: A hybrid composite material is being prepared using recycled rubber as filler, epoxy resin as matrix with woven glass fibre as reinforcement.Two types of composites are preparedby adding without any filler and with recycled rubber filler.Hand layup technique is used for preparing the composites. 400 gsm glass woven fabrics are used in both cases. The flexural test was carried out by three point bending method. Additionally, the modulus of elasticity E was found out in tensile test in case of both Plain and new hybrid composite.The 6 % rubber filled composites shown the higher flexural strength and the elasticity is increased with increase in the filler addition. Keywords: Glass fibre, Recycled rubber, Flexural test, Tensile test,Epoxy 123 PG Students., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KVGCE, SULLIA, DK – 574327 VTU, Belgaum. Karnataka, India, 1 E-mail:nvavinash50@gmail.com 4 Professor., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering KVGCE, SULLIA, DK – 574327, VTU, Belgaum, Karnataka, India , 4 E-mail:ukskvgce@gmail.com 2 E-mail:pramodnk90@gmailcom , 3 E-mail: sudheerkv21@gmail.com