Abstract:
Composites consist of natural fiber materials that offer attractive strength equivalent to
conventional materials. However, the defect of bamboo is its hydrophilic character, severed with
some properties which affect the performance of fibers. Synthetic fiber composite becomes
expensive, non-biodegradable, and environmentally unfriendly, to address such issues and the
necessity of composite in the automobile, aerospace, and construction industries. This paper is
present an experimental studies on laminated bamboo strip fiber reinforced with alumina
particulate to polymer composite. In recent years, Natural fiber composites have gained
significant popularity as structural materials due to their stiffness and high strength with a low
cost, as well as their light weight, short growing cycle, biodegradability, eco-friendliness, and
high availability. For physical and mechanical characterizations, the specimen is prepared using
the hand lay-up manufacturing processing techniques. Mild steel mold with dimensions of
320x260x50mm. The composite plate constitutes weight loading of bamboo/epoxy compositions is
25%:70%, 20%:70%, and 15%:70% with 5wt%, 10wt%, and 15%wt of Al2O3. Epoxy (LY556) and
hardener (HY951) were used to mix in the ration 100:10 for curing bamboo composite with the
reinforcement orientation on (00
/900&±450
). The laminated composite ply stacking sequence on
the [0/900
]S and [±450
]S. During this work, conduct mechanical property tests under ASTM
standards, such as tensile, compression, flexural strength, hardness, and impact strength and
water absorption. The greatest value for tensile strength is 86.7Mpa, flexural strength is
247.5Mpa, hardness is 207Hv and impact 6.984kJ/m of composite obtained at 5wt%, 15wt% and
10wt%alumina, respectively, and FTIR is intermolecular interaction between fibers and resin of
materials. The goal of the study is to improve the mechanical properties of the bamboo composite
that has been developed
