Journal of the Japan Society for Composite Materials
Online ISSN : 1884-8559
Print ISSN : 0385-2563
ISSN-L : 0385-2563
Volume 17, Issue 3
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  • Toshiyuki HASHIDA, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
    1991 Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 89-97
    Published: May 15, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: August 11, 2009
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  • Katsuaki SUGANUMA
    1991 Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 97-107
    Published: May 15, 1991
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  • Z. MAEKAWA, H. HAMADA, S. ISHIBASHI
    1991 Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 108-117
    Published: May 15, 1991
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    A nonlinear behavior between tensile stress and tensile strain for carbon fiber and its composites is pointed out. In carbon fiber and its unidirectional composites, an increase of stiffness with increasing strain level is observed. Tensile elastic modulus is defined as a gradient of stress versus strain ; tangent modulus, secant modulus and chord modulus have been used. The value of the elastic modulus is varied related with method of evaluation and the range of applied strain. Therefore it is necessary to define the method of evaluation of the elastic modulus. In this paper, three kinds of method for the elastic modulus evaluation is exam-ined. As a results, initial tangent modulus is the best because of its universality. If evaluation of tangent modulus is difficult, chord modulus is desirable because of its smaller error with the evaluation. It is also required for the chord modulus that the strain range applied is declared.
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  • H. SEKINE, S. KAMIYA, T. SASAKI
    1991 Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 118-124
    Published: May 15, 1991
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    Damage extension behavior at the notch tip in a short fiber reinforced SMC composite is experimentally examined from the view point of the release of elastic strain energy which is supposed to control the microcrack extension in brittle fiber-brittle matrix composites. We carried out experiments on the transparent nonfiller SMC composite which enabled us to see clearly the microcracks in the damage region, and we realized that almost all the microcracks were debondings of strands. Damage initiates at the early stage of loading and afterwards extends rapidly with the sudden increment of AE signals, which corresponds to the beginning of fiber breakage at the notch tip. However, the amount of released elastic strain energy appears to be roughly proportional to the accumulated AE energy and also to the area of damage region, and these linear relationships are not affected by the beginning of the fiber breakage. These facts lead us to the conclusion that the release of elastic strain energy during the whole fracture process of the SMC composite is owing mostly to the debondings of strands.
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  • Masuji UEMURA
    1991 Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 125-128
    Published: May 15, 1991
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    1991 Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 130
    Published: May 15, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: August 11, 2009
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