• G. RAMA KRISHNA
• G SANKARAIAH
• B MADHUSUDHAN REDDY

Natural fibers are the other alternative in which the research is being carried out to overcome the problem of using metals due to its distinct characteristics like low cost, less weight, biodegradability etc. The mechanical properties namely, tensile strength (TS), flexural strength (FS) of untreated and treated alkali burmese silk fiber-reinforced epoxy composites were studied. In this paper an attempt is made to prepare two different composite materials using untreated and alkali treated burmese silk as reinforcement and Epoxy as the matrix material respectively. Composites were prepared by increasing the weight of fibers like 10,15,20 grams for reinforcement respectively by Hand Layup technique. The mechanical properties testing of the material was done by cutting the material into ASTM standards on Tester. It was found that as the weight of fiber increases there is improvement in the mechanical properties of the composite material.

Composite, Natural Fiber, Epoxy, Hand layup, Mechanical properties.

"Tensile and flexural properties of burmese silk natural fiber reinforced epoxy composites", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.728-731, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807710.pdf

"Tensile and flexural properties of burmese silk natural fiber reinforced epoxy composites", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp728-731, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807710.pdf