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A secondary fibre has been used to improve the impact properties of carbon fibre-reinforced composites. Steel wires possessing similar elastic properties to Type III carbon fibres have been added strategically to the composite cross-section. This has resulted in a 100% improvement in the fracture energy provided that the wires were placed in close proximity to the compressive or impacted face. Such a result is achieved with small increases in longitudinal and interlaminar shear strength. Only minor changes in specific properties occurred through the introduction of the high-density wires. The increase in fracture energy occurs because of the elimination of a compressive failure mode, believed to be brought about by the steel wires increasing the resistance to buckling at the impacted face. Hence, more energy-intensive processes, such as multiple delamination, fibre and wire pull out, are permitted to take place over larger areas of the fracture face.
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Bradley, P.D., Harris, S.J. Strategic reinforcement of hybrid carbon fibre-reinforced polymer composites. J Mater Sci 12, 2401–2410 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00553926
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