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Experiments carried out on pultruded fibre reinforced polyester resins show that, at moderate fibre volume fractions, the compressive strength of aligned fibre composites depends linearly on the volume fraction. The strength falls off when the fibre volume fraction,V f=0.4 with Kevlar and high strength carbon fibres. The effective fibre strength atV f<0.4 is much less than the tensile strength but it is close to the tensile strength with E-glass fibres and high modulus carbon fibres. Poor adhesion between fibres and matrix reduces the compressive strength, as does kinking the fibres when the fibre radius of curvature is reduced to below 5 mm. Misalignment of the fibres reduces the compressive strength when the average angle of misalignment exceeds about 10° for glass and carbon fibres. However, with Kevlar no such reduction is observed because the compression strength of Kevlar reinforced resin is only a very little better than that of the unreinforced resin.
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Martinez, G.M., Piggott, M.R., Bainbridge, D.M.R. et al. The compression strength of composites with kinked, misaligned and poorly adhering fibres. J Mater Sci 16, 2831–2836 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02402847
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02402847