Paper Title
Modeling and Evaluation of Tensile Properties for Banana/Glass Fibre Hybrid Composites

Abstract
This study aims at comparing the experimental values of tensile properties with those obtained through various theories of micromechanical modeling for hybrid fibre reinforced polymer composites. Models used in this study are Rule of Hybrid Mixtures, Hirsch, Halpin-Tsai equation, Nielson (Modified Halpin-Tsai equation), Modified Bowyer and Bader�s method. Banana/Glass fibresare reinforced with epoxy composites with different volume fraction and fabricated using hand layup method. Experimental values of tensile properties were determined as per ASTM standard. Of various theories of reinforcement, Modified Bowyer-Badermodel predicted tensile properties are closer to the experimental values. Further, the effects of fibre length and fibre volume fraction on the tensile properties were compared with Modified Bowyer-Bader model. Keywords- Banana Fibre, Glass Fibre, Hybrid Composites, Mathematical Modeling, Polymer Composite.