Effect of Fiber Loading on Mechanical Properties of Borassus Seed Shoot Fiber Reinforced Polyester Composites

The main aim of this work is to introduce a new natural borassus seed shoot fiber as reinforcement in polymers for making partially green polymer composites. The fiber content in the composites was varied from ~ 0.116 to 0.305 by volume and the variation of mechanical properties such as tensile, flexural and impact properties in each case were studied. The tensile and flexural strength of Borassus seed shoot fiber composite have shown an improvement of 77.1% and112.6% respectively over pure matrix. The work of fracture measured in impact at maximum volume fraction of fiber is found to be 88.54 J/m. Further, the density of the composites was found to decrease with increase in fiber content.