A Review on Basalt Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composite Material

Polymer matrix composite materials are most frequently used in engineering applications due to its biodegradable, environmentally friendly and better mechanical properties. Basalt fibre composites are widely used due to their high performance in automobile applications. When compared with traditional fibres like glass fibre and carbon fibre, basalt fibre has superior mechanical properties. This review paper presents the mechanical, physical and chemical properties of basalt fibre composites along with various polymer matrices and also the various combination of basalt fibre with other polymer matrix composite materials. From the literatures, it is observed that, the plasma treatment increases the thermal stability, alkali treatment increases the corrosion resistance and additive treatment increases the mechanical properties of the basalt fibre based composites.