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The failure mechanisms in waisted tensile specimens of pultruded 60% volume fraction glass fibre-epoxide were investigated at atmospheric and superposed hydrostatic pressures extending to 350 MN m−2. The maximum principal stress at fracture decreased from ∼1.7 GN m−2 at atmospheric pressure to ∼1.3 GN m−2 at 250 MN m−2 superposed pressure and remained approximately constant at higher pressures, as had been observed with carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) and a nickel-matrix carbon fibre composite. In the high-pressure region the failure surfaces were fairly flat, consistent with the fracture process being solely controlled by fibre strength. Pre-failure damage, in particular debonding, was initiated at ∼0.95 GN m−2 at atmospheric pressure and this stress rose to ∼1.2 GN m−2 at 300 MN m−2 superposed pressure, i.e. by about 9% per 100 MN m−2. Unlike the pressure dependence in CFRP, this contrasts with the pressure dependence of the resin tensile strength, about 25% per 100 MN m−2, but can be associated with that of the fibre bundle/resin debonding stress, about 12% per 100 MN m−2 superposed pressure. Consistent with this interpretation, glass fibres of the failure surfaces were resin-free, again in contrast to CFRP.
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Parry, T.V., Wronski, A.S. The tensile properties of pultruded GRP tested under superposed hydrostatic pressure. J Mater Sci 21, 4451–4455 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01106570
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