TY - JFULL AU - Sehijpal Singh Khangura and Jai Inder Preet Singh and Vikas Dhawan PY - 2018/10/ TI - Effect of Curing Temperature on Mechanical Properties of Jute Fiber Reinforced Polylactic Acid Based Green Composite T2 - International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering SP - 856 EP - 862 VL - 12 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10009462 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 141, 2018 N2 - Global warming, growing awareness of the environment, waste management issues, dwindling fossil resources, and rising oil prices resulted to increase the research in the materials that are friendly to our health and environment. Due to these reasons, green products are increasingly being promoted for sustainable development. In this work, fully biodegradable green composites have been developed using jute fibers as reinforcement and poly lactic acid as matrix material by film stacking technique. The effect of curing temperature during development of composites ranging from 160 °C, 170 °C, 180 °C and 190 °C was investigated for various mechanical properties. Results obtained from various tests indicate that impact strength decreases with an increase in curing temperature, but tensile and flexural strength increases till 180 °C, thereafter both the properties decrease. This study gives an optimum curing temperature for the development of jute/PLA composites. ER -