Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Materials Today: Proceedings 18 (2019) 165–174 www.materialstoday.com/proceedings ∗ Bade Venkata Suresh. Tel.: +918688239140. E-mail address: venkatasuresh.bade@gmail.com Selection and/or Peer-review under responsibility of International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, ICAMME-2018. § ICAMME-2018 Experimental Investigation on Mechanical Properties ofBi-Directional Hybrid Natural Fibre Composite (HNFC) Yegireddi Shireesha a,b , Bade Venkata Suresh b,∗ , M V A Raju Bahubalendruni b , Govind Nandipati c a Acharya Nagarjuna University Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, 522510, India b , GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam, Andhra Pradesh 532127,India c RVR& JC College of Engineering,Guntur, Andhra Pradesh 522019, India Abstract Natural fiber composites (NFC) have become very popular in the structural applications due to their bio-degradability and ease of availability. The major limitation with NFCs for the industrial applications is the poor strength to weight ratio and stiffness to weight ratio compared to the polymer matrix composites. In this paper an attempt is made to improve the mechanical performance of the NFC through hybridization. Jute and Banana fibers are amalgamated with epoxy matrix at different volume fractions and Hybrid natural fiber composite (HNFC) is prepared and characterized for tensile, flexural and hardness behavior. The results proven that the HNFC offered superior performance than pure Jute and Pure banana fiber composite. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and/or Peer-review under responsibility of International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, ICAMME-2018. Keywords: Banana fibre-Jute fibre-Hybrid composite- 1. Introduction A large work has done on usages and fabrication of natural fibre composites and how to replace them with the synthetic fibres which are causing damage to the environment. This chapter covers literature review on various natural fibres and their mechanical properties and physical properties. Siva BhaskaraRaoDevi reddy et al. [1] investigated the mechanical and physical behavior of banana and jute fibre hybrid composites. The combination of both banana and jute fibers with epoxy shows an improvement in properties up to 30% wt. on loading. And observed that the hybridization of fibers having improved mechanical properties than individual fibers. H.P.S. Abdul Khalil et al. [2] investigated bamboo fibre utilization in composite reinforcement, which is improved impressively and recently it is transferred to high-tech mutiny to increase the demand for producing recyclable, biodegradable and sustainable materials. The natural fibres yield composite possessing and amalgamation of matrix is done for each component to improve the properties. Different matrices used at present are flexible and soft in differentiation to natural fibres and their union leads to formation of composite with high strength to weight ratios. B. A Muralidhar et al [3] identified the mechanical, thermal and thermo-mechanical properties of hybrid reinforced composites of flax 2214-7853 © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.