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Volume 8, Issue 2, 1999
The Effect Of Water Absorption On Mode I Intterlaminar Fracture Toughness Of Aramid Fibre Reinforced Plastics,

Hideki Sembokuya¹, Masaki Hojo², and Kiyoshi Kemmochi³

¹Dept. of Industrial Design, Takushoku University. 815-1, Tate-machi, Hachioji, Tokyo 193-8585, Japan.
²Mesoscopic Materials Research Center, Kyoto University. Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi 606-8501, Japan.
³National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, AIST. 1-1-4, Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan.

ABSTRACT

Mode I interlaminar fracture toughness tests were carried out for aramid fibre reinforced epoxy laminates. Specimens immersed in water were also tested for comparison. The effect of water absorption on interlaminar fracture toughness was small for the aramid/epoxy laminates used in this study.

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