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Natural fibres play a vital role in the area of composites and have found wide acceptance in this area. In this work, two kinds of hybrid laminates are studied, one with carbon, jute and aluminium termed as CAJRAL and the other, CARAL, with carbon and aluminium only. The purpose of this study is to analyse the effect of addition of natural fibre jute in the fibre metal laminate on its mechanical behavior. Experimental studies are undertaken on tensile, flexure and impact properties of both CARAL and CAJRAL. It is observed that, CAJRAL’s mechanical performance deviates from that of CARAL by only a maximum of 24%, with respect to axial and impact loadings. As far as the bending behaviour is concerned, CAJRAL performs even better than CARAL, due to the presence of jute fibre. Moreover the experimental findings are compared with analytical simulation and are found to be in close agreement. |
