Investigation on StructuralCharacteristics of Bamboo-Laminates

Composite materials are structural and functional materialsformedartificially or synthetically by combining two or more dissimilar materials having different characteristics (physical or chemical) which are in macroscopic level and are essentially not soluble in each other. Our present venture is focused on polymer composites due to their light weight, high damping factor, and high stress concentration factor, anti-corrosiveness and anti-chemical properties.The need for strengthened composites (FRP) for renewable fibers has never been as predominant as it is now. The Natural fiber provides both densities decrease and cost savings in comparison with glass fibres. Nevertheless, natural fiber resistance is not as good as glass, the specific characteristics are similar.In the current work bamboo fibre woven as cloth is used to manufacture a polymer composite through and lay process which,includes the application of uniform pressure using rollers to impregnate the fibres with the adhesive resin. The Natural fiber-epoxy composite is then subjected for mechanical properties tests like Brinell's hardness, flexural, tensile and compression strength tests. Further also observes the laminate orientation and observes the deformation and von-mises stress under the load conditions using ANSYS. The composite shows greater promises to be a better natural fibre composite with strengths comparably better than other natural fibre composites like that of jute, linen, kenaf.