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Eco friendly materials are highly demanded and required for brake friction applications due to its environmental friendliness, crab shell powder and palm kernel shell powders are among them. Crab shell and palm kernel shell powders are produced by grinding their shells respectively to fine mesh and for crab shell powder; it was treated with various solutions for further processing. In this present work, the friction composites are developed in the form of standard brake pads from crab shell powder following the weight percentage of 4, 8, 12 and compensated by palm kernel shell powder with a weight percentage of 12, 8, 4. The developed pads are designated as Na01, Na02, and Na03. The physical, chemical, thermal and mechanical properties was characterized using IS 2742 (Part-3) and ISO-6312 Standards. The weight loss was predicted using TGA since the temperature rise during braking will rise up to 400°C.