in Titre de série : | Journal of materials science, Vol.26, No.11 | Titre : | Weibull strength statistics for graphite fibres measured from the break progression in a model graphite/glass/epoxy microcomposite | Type de document : | document imprimé | Auteurs : | R. Gulino, Auteur ; S. L. Phoenix, Auteur | Importance : | p. 3107-3118 | Langues : | Anglais (eng) | Résumé : | Recent statistical theories for the failure of fibrous composities focus on the initiation and growth of clusters of broken fibres within the composite. These theoreis require the probability distribution for fibre strength at the length scale of micromechanical load transfer around a cluster of broken fibres. Such lengths are of the order of 10 to 150 fibre diameters, and thus the associated strengths have previously been unmeasurable by direct means. Using Weilbull/weakest-link rules, researchers have resorted to extrapolation of tension test results from gauge lengths two orders of magnitude longer. In this paper, a technique is developed to study the break progression of a single graphite fibre in an epoxy microcomposite tape, where the graphite fibre is flanked by two, proof-tested, glass fibres. These results are interpreted using a Weibull/Poisson model of the break progression, the number of breaks in the graphite fibre as a function of applied strain, which accounts for stress decay at the fibre ends. It is shown that such extrapolations of tension test data are too optimistic. In addition, different fibres from the same yarn cross-section, apparently have different flaw populations, unlike that which occurs at longer gauge lengths. |
in Journal of materials science, Vol.26, No.11. Weibull strength statistics for graphite fibres measured from the break progression in a model graphite/glass/epoxy microcomposite [document imprimé] / R. Gulino, Auteur ; S. L. Phoenix, Auteur . - [s.d.] . - p. 3107-3118. Langues : Anglais ( eng) Résumé : | Recent statistical theories for the failure of fibrous composities focus on the initiation and growth of clusters of broken fibres within the composite. These theoreis require the probability distribution for fibre strength at the length scale of micromechanical load transfer around a cluster of broken fibres. Such lengths are of the order of 10 to 150 fibre diameters, and thus the associated strengths have previously been unmeasurable by direct means. Using Weilbull/weakest-link rules, researchers have resorted to extrapolation of tension test results from gauge lengths two orders of magnitude longer. In this paper, a technique is developed to study the break progression of a single graphite fibre in an epoxy microcomposite tape, where the graphite fibre is flanked by two, proof-tested, glass fibres. These results are interpreted using a Weibull/Poisson model of the break progression, the number of breaks in the graphite fibre as a function of applied strain, which accounts for stress decay at the fibre ends. It is shown that such extrapolations of tension test data are too optimistic. In addition, different fibres from the same yarn cross-section, apparently have different flaw populations, unlike that which occurs at longer gauge lengths. |
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