The effects of the lamination with the discs reinforced by fibers in the radial direction, discs reinforced by fibers in the direction of the tangent to the central hole, and isotropically laminated discs on the increase of the circumferentially fiber-reinforced disc were studied. Molding methods of these discs and experimental results of the centrifugal strains were given, and the effects of the lamination were discussed. A fairly good agreement was obtained between the observation and the calculation of the strains. The effect of the lamination on the initial cracking strength was not so large.
Relationship between the structure of reinforcement and the microscopic failure mechanism and the tensile behaviours of glass fabric reinforced plastic laminates under uniaxal tension in parallel and in a certain angle to the weaving yarn is investigated experimentally. It is shown that the microscopic failure modes of the laminates differ for the structures of reinforcement, but the degree of increment of failed regions is hardly affected by the structure of reinforcement. The failure mechanism under combined tensile and shearing stress state is clarified, and the correlation between the failure mechanism and the stress strain relation is also explained.
Tensile and bending tests were conducted for Epoxy and unidirectional CFRP specimens set in a cryostat using liquid nitrogen. The agreement between experimental and calculated results of the elastic moduli of CFRP-UD was very good. As the basic data, tensile and bending strengths were obtained for 3130-Epoxy resin. Because of some experimental difficulties, the tensile strengths were scattered widely and very small. The bending strengths tending upward at low temperature were employed as computational input data. The calculated transverse strengths of CFRP-UD based on the author's analysis were in a considerably good agreement with the experimental results. It should be noted that not only the transverse but longitudinal strengths of CFRP-UD were nearly independent of the temperature in the present range.