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In this study, natural fiber epoxy composites were prepared using palmyra sprout fiber and red matta rice husk ash(RHA) biosilica. This paper mainly aims to investigate the mechanical, wear resistance, thermal stability as well as water absorption behaviour of naturally obtained novel fiber with red matta biosilica in epoxy based composites. The fiber’s surface was treated by base, while the biosilica particles were treated by amino-silane. The composites were fabricated by hand lay-up process and characterized based on ASTM standards. According to the results the highest tensile and flexural strength observed for the composite is about 147 MPa and 211 MPa for 3 vol. % of biosilica with 30 vol. % of fiber. Izod impact toughness reveals the maximum impact resistance up to 5.82 J. Increment in reinforcement vol. % shows increased hardness. Wear properties represents the composite designations EPB3 retains good wear resistances for 3 vol. % of biosilica. Similarly, thermal stability improved by the addition of biosilica of 3 vol. %. Water absorption results reveal that, the addition of reinforcements marginally affects the contact angle. Such mechanically improved, wear resistible and thermally stable natural composites could be used in automotives, industrial and defense applications as well as in household appliances.

It is usual practice to optimize the various processing parameters in order to achieve well-organized and lucrative process conditions. For the creation of tungsten carbide/silicon nitride/AA2219 composites, sintering temperature, sintering pressure, dwelling time, and heating rate all must be optimized. Design of experiments and analysis of variance were employed to assess the factors’ contributions to density as well as microhardness response variables. It was decided to test the admixed powders and Vickers hardness tester, optical microscope, and Archimedes-based density testing to evaluate the sintered compacts. The optimum spark plasma sintering factors were a temperature of 500°C, a pressure of 30 MPa, a dwelling time of 8 minutes, and a heat rate of 160 °C/min, resulting in an extreme density of 2.71 g/cm3 and a maximum microhardness of 38.61 HV (0.38 GPa).