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The Non-Linear Elasticity of Unidirectional Continuous Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Composites and of Carbon Fibres
Vincent Keryvin1, Adrien Marchandise2
1UMR CNRS 6027, IRDL, Université Bretagne Sud, F-56321 Lorient, France.
Abstract:
A database of non-linear elastic parameters in axial tension and compression is provided for continuous carbon fibre polymer composites and carbon fibres of different stiffnesses. Composite laminates manufactured by conventional or automated processes are tested in bending, and parameters are extracted for strains of less than 0.5%. While fibre composites with fibres of standard and intermediate moduli exhibit a stiffening of ∼15 GPa/% (of strain) and a softening of ∼20 GPa/%, those with high-modulus carbon fibres exhibit much higher values of ∼50 GPa/% for both. This database is useful for designing composite structures in a stiffness-based design and for correlating the processing of carbon fibres with their nanostructure and induced properties. The latter is discussed in terms of reorientation of crystallites of graphene sheets vis-à-vis the carbon fibre axis during loading.
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