Tensile behavior of carbon fiber bundles at different strain rates

Abstract

Quasi-static and high strain rate tensile tests have been performed on T700 carbon fiber bundles and complete stress–strain curves at the strain rate range of 0.001 s − 1 to 1300 s − 1 were obtained. Results show that strain rate has negligible effect on both ultimate strength and failure strain, and T700 carbon fiber can be regarded as strain rate insensitive materials. On the basis of the fiber bundles model and the statistic theory of fiber strength, a damage constitutive model based on Weibull distribution function has been developed to describe tensile behavior of T700 fiber bundles. And the method to determine the statistic parameters of fibers by tensile tests of fiber bundles is established, too.