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Now a days natural fibers are progressively projected as a choice of conventional synthetic fibers which causes an adverse impact on the surroundings. Rise within the utilization of environment-friendly natural fibers as reinforcement for the manufacture of lightweight, low-cost polymer with excellent mechanical, thermal and tribological properties can be made globally. One such material of interesting material being presently used is basalt fiber, which is the most-efficient and provides important properties over Carbon fibers, Glass fiber, and some other fibers. In this attempt, an effort made to showcase the tribological properties achieved for application in specific wear conditions like abrasive, sliding and erosion of basalt fiber reinforced polymer composites.

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 Abstract: Basalt Fiber Reinforced polymer composite has the best green reinforced alternative to synthetic fibers. It is having an excellent mechanical properties compared to synthetic fibers. Twill weave woven basalt fabric used to manufacture the laminates using Hand layup method preceded with vacuum bag pressure method to obtain the series of unfilled and filled tungsten carbide filler (0-8%) materials into basalt epoxy composites. In this study, tensile strength and percentage of elongation of laminated structure carried out using computerized universal testing equipment. Among these laminates, the basalt fiber reinforced with 6% of tungsten carbide filler shows better strength properties than the other combination of laminates. The incorporation of tungsten carbide fillers in epoxy composites could provide a synergism in terms of improving tensile properties and percentage of elongation.

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