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Abstract : This paper investigates the influence of nanoclay content on flexural, impact and water absorption prop-erties of Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) and FRP face sheet sandwich laminates with polystyrene foamcore. Four different combinations of FRP composites (0, 2, 4 and 6 wt% of nano clay) have been preparedby hand lay-up manufacturing techniques (HL) and they have been investigated for the same to obtainthe best combination. Further, based on the best combination obtained, two different (0 and 4 wt%) sand-wich laminates are prepared to make relative comparison among various laminates. X-ray diffraction(XRD) results have been obtained from the FRP samples, where the nanoclay has indicated that, the modeof dispersion and intergallery spacing of the layered clay. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has givenmorphological picture of the FRP fracture samples. The results of the study show that, the flexural, impactand water absorption properties of the nano polyester sandwich laminate have been greatly increased at4% of nanoclay loading