A REVIEW ON NATURAL FIBER REINFORCED POLYPROPELYNE COMPOSITES: APPLICATION AND CHARACTERISTIC

Modern scientific tools revolutionized the processing of polymers thus available synthetic polymers like useful plastics, rubbers and fiber materials. As with other engineering materials (metals and ceramics), the properties of polymers are related their constituent structural elements and their arrangement. The suffix in polymer ‘mer’ is originated from Greek word meros – which means part. The word polymer is thus coined to mean material consisting of many parts/mers. Natural Fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composites have gained commercial success in the semi structural and structural applications such as aircraft, automobiles, sporting goods, electronics, and appliances are quite dependent on natural fiber-reinforced plastics, and these composites are routinely designed, manufactured and used in place of synthetic fiber reinforced polymer composites. The objective of this paper is to study the behaviour of composite materials. This chapter introduces classification of polymers, processing and synthesis of polymers, followed by mechanism of deformation and mechanical behaviour of polymers.