“…Several investigations have been evaluated on polyester and epoxy reinforced with Luffa cylindrical fibre (Saw, Purwar, Nandy, Ghose, & Sarkhel, 2013;Seki, Sever, Erden, Sarikanat, Neser, & Ozes, 2012;Tanobe, Flores-Sahagun, Amico, Muniz, & Satyanarayana, 2014) modified with sodium hydroxide (NaOH), methacrylamide and grafted with furfuryl alcohol (FA), respectively. In the case of Seki et al (2012), polyester/luffa fibre reinforced composite was exposed to water aging under a steam of seawater containing 5% sodium chloride for 170 h at 50 • C. It was observed after aging, the elongation at break; tensile; inter-laminar and flexural strength values of the composite decreased by ∼31%, 24%, 45% and 28% respectively.…”