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@article{181694,
        author = {Sridhar.M and Vijayakumar.S},
        title = {Experimental Investigation on the Mechanical and Tribological Behavior of Hybrid Natural Fiber and HDPE Reinforced Composite},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {1},
        pages = {5437-5442},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=181694},
        abstract = {The use of composite materials incorporating natural fibres is gaining traction in engineering fields like automotive, marine, and aerospace due to their advantages, including high specific strength, renewability, non-abrasiveness, cost-effectiveness, and biodegradability. Among the various natural fibres explored as alternatives to glass fibre, banana and kenaf stand out as favourable options due to their low cost, high strength, high aspect ratio, excellent insulating properties, and low thermal conductivity. The purpose of this work is to study the influence of Banana fiber, kenaf fibre, Coir fiber and combined with HDPE same volume of epoxy resin is-70%. But the content of fiber Ratio -1 Banana fiber is -10%, kenaf fiber is-10%, Coir fiber is-5% and HDPE is-5%. In Ratio-2 Banana fiber is -7.5%, kenaf fiber is-10%, Coir fiber is-7.5% and HDPE is-5%. Ratio -3 Banana fiber is -7.5%, Kenaf fiber is-7.5%, Coir fiber is-10% and HDPE is-5%.  From this research analysis identified that greater impact energy, tensile strength, and flexural load were produced by a higher banana, kenaf fiber and a lower cotton fibre content. More compressive strength and low percentages of water absorption have been achieved by the equal percentages of banana, cotton fibre and the most amount of cotton fibre.},
        keywords = {Natural fiber, Flexural strength, Impact load, Tensile strength.},
        month = {June},
        }