Experimental Study of Banana Fiber Reinforced Green Composite

In today’s developing era the concern for the prevention of non-biodegradable resources has attracted researchers to develop biodegradable materials based on green principles. The fibers from agriculture waste give good advantages over conventional synthetic fibers such as low cost and density, non-toxicity and waste disposal problems. In this work banana fibers have been used as the reinforcing agent with corn starch and glycerol as the matrix to increase the effectiveness of banana fibers. The composites have been fabricated by injection moulding method followed by high speed mixing and twin screw extrusion. In this experiment mechanical and physical properties have been evaluated by changing the proportion of banana fiber and matrix material. The tensile, flexural, impact and hardness tests have been performed on newly fabricated green composites. From the results, it has been observed that the composites having greater fiber content show evidence of superior properties.