抄録
Braids have been applied to various components for over one thousand years. Binding, bundling and hanging are listed in the representative uses of braids. The braids have characteristic mechanical properties, low modulus, large deformability, variable Poisson's ratio and low stiffness under flexural and compressive loads, and so on. Evaluation method of the braid properties has not been established. In order to clarify mechanical properties of the braids under the initial tensile loading quantitatively, an evaluation method is proposed in this study. By the application of the proposed method to three kinds of glass fiber braids, effects of braiding structure on the mechanical properties are discussed. Therefore the valid tensile testing method for evaluation of the braid properties could be proposed.
