Manufacturing of composite material has been an extensive area of research as they have high strength-to-weight ratio that are equivalent or superior to many metallic materials. This paper describes the preparation of E-Glass (woven fabric) Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite (GFRP) with different fiber mat material, orientation and resin. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of the process parameters on the mechanical properties of GFRP composite using Taguchi experimental design in combination with Grey Relational Analysis (GRA). The conclusion revealed that fiber orientation and resin were the most influential factor on the mechanical properties, respectively. It is observed that the optimum properties were obtained at 400 fabric mat, polyester resin, 45°/–45°orientation.

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Glass fiber reinforced polymer composites are the most common of all reinforcing fibers for polymeric matrix composite for several applications. This paper describes the fabrication of E-glass woven fabric mat fiber composites with different types of woven mat and different types of orientation and investigations of the same. Mechanical characterization of the composites were done by testing the composite lamina for tensile, compressive, flexural and impact strength. The composites manufactured by hand lay-up process with the volume fraction of fiber up to 0.60. It was found that the E-glass 400 woven composites proved better properties than the 600 woven composite alone in flexural strength. However, the E-glass 600 woven composites is superior to 400 woven composites in its tensile, compressive and impact strength. The fracture surface structure of the composite was observed under a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and the cracks, holes and fiber delamination have also been analysed.