According to environmental concerns and financial problems, natural fibers have been become interesting and fascinating nowadays to use as an industrial material like as structural material for rehabilitating of structures. Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch Fiber (OPF) is a natural fiber which is found in tropical area a lot. Scientists have used OPF fiber with many types of resins such as Epoxy, Polypropylene, Polyester, Phenol Formaldehyde and etc. Therefore, this paper focused on the properties of OPF fiber and gathered mechanical properties of OPF composites (OPF as reinforcement of polymer) reported by other researchers in terms of tensile and flexural properties. In addition, the results of hybrid composites of OPF were also discussed in this paper. Meanwhile, the results of composites were compared to pure resin properties and also the stress-strain diagram and internal strain energy of composites were considered. Besides, the effects of adding OPF to other composites to make a new hybrid composite were indicated. Finally, it is clear that the use of Oil palm fiber composites for structural elements for bearing loads are not recommended but the using of OPF composites for secondary structural elements maybe recommended due to future researches.

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