Characterization of material properties of green polymer composite

The composite materials are being utilized for many industrial applications. With the advent of academic research, many composite materials are introduced in the market by incorporating bio waste materials. The current paper addresses the tribological behaviour of epoxy composite reinforced with hybrid fibre such as glass and neem along with the incorporation of rice husk ash. The green epoxy composite was prepared using compression moulding by varying neem/glass hybrid fibre ratio between 10 and 40 wt% and keeping 2% (by wt.) of rice husk filler as constant. The tribological characteristics was studied through the conduct of pin on disc wear test instrument. Wear resistance of the composite due to the functional parameters such as load, sliding distance and speed were investigated.