Abstract
This article is concerned with the reliable test method for measuring the tensile strength in the longitudinal direction of unidirectional carbon fiber-reinforced plastics. A filament-wound resin-impregnated carbon fiber strand (carbon fiber-reinforced plastics strand) was employed as the specimen. The most important improvement for reliable tests is that the bonding strength of the end tabs with carbon fiber-reinforced plastics strand should be higher than the tensile strength of CFRP strand. We improved the bonding strength by co-curing the carbon fiber-reinforced plastics strand with end tabs. The improved method was applied to two kinds of carbon fiber-reinforced plastics strands and the reliable tensile strengths were obtained.
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