Abstract
Compressive failure of a 0°/90° glass fibre-reinforced amorphous thermoplastic has been characterized. It was found that the critical event is the nucleation within 90° laminates of multiple shear crazes, which become shear microcracks, transition to axial cracks, and permit the specimen to fail by the flexure of 0° elements. It is shown that the apparent kinetics of this process provide a rationale for the dramatic strain-rate strengthening of these composites at high loading rate.
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