Now-a-days, the natural fibers from renewable natural resources offer the potential to act as a reinforcing material for polymer composites alternative to the use of, carbon and other manmade fibers. Among various fibers, cotton silk is the most widely used natural fiber due to its advantages like easy availability, low density, low production cost and satisfactory mechanical properties. For a composite material, its mechanical behavior depends on many factors such as fiber content,

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... types, length etc., attempts will be carried to find the tensile, compression &bending properties for the specimen prepared as per ASTM standard. They are insoluble in each other and differ in form or chemical composition. Experimental techniques can be employed to understand the effects of various fibers, their volume fractions and matrix properties in hybrid composites. These experiments require fabrication of various composites with the above mentioned parameters, which are time consuming and cost prohibitive. Therefore, a computational model is created as will be described in detail later, which might be easily altered to model hybrid composites of different volume fractions of constituents, hence saving the designer valuable time and resource