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Critical fibre length and tensile strength for carbon fibre-epoxy composites

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The tensile strength of epoxy resin reinforced with a random-planar orientation of short carbon fibres decreases with increasing temperature. This decrease may be estimated by the strain rate and temperature dependence of both the yield shear strength at the fibre-matrix interphase and the critical fibre length obtained by taking the distribution of fibre strength into consideration. The experimental value at room temperature is smaller than the calculated value. It is inferred that this result is attributed to the stress concentration caused by ineffective fibres produced during preparation which were shorter than the critical fibre length.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Yanagido 1-1, 501-11, Gifu, Japan

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Miwa, M., Endo, I. Critical fibre length and tensile strength for carbon fibre-epoxy composites. J Mater Sci 29, 1174–1178 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00975060

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