Natural Bast fiber reinforced polymer composites are attractive because of their renewability and environment friendliness. Therefore, in this work, the mechanical properties of these composites have been tried to improve by adding basalt fibers. The fiber mats were prepared by carding. After press molding, the tensile and Charpy mechanical properties of compression molded samples were studied. Moreover, the influence of basalt fibers with two different sizes was studied at the mechanical performance of the composites.
Improvement of mechanical property profile of natural fiber (bast) reinforced polymer composites is carried out by hybridization with basalt fibers.