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Mechanical Testing of Single Fibers

Handbook of Mechanics of Materials

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Materials in the form of long fibers are used in a variety of structural applications. Examples include cables, ropes, woven or nonwoven fabrics, and as reinforcements in composite materials. Thus, it is important to have knowledge of their mechanical characteristics. Mechanical testing of long, slender individual fibers is a nontrivial matter. Many techniques for testing single fibers are available. We describe some of the important ones in this chapter: tensile testing by using cardboard frame technique, recoil compression test, shear modulus by means of torsional pendulum test, loop test, techniques involving laser interferometry, Raman spectroscopy, and insitu techniques involving the use of scanning electron and transmission electron microscopy.

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  1. Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Krishan K. Chawla

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  1. Materials Science and Strength of Materials, University of Stuttgart Institute for Materials Testing, Stuttgart, Germany

    Siegfried Schmauder

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University Department of Civil Engineering, Taipei, T´ai-pei, Taiwan

    Chuin-Shan Chen

  3. BEC 254, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Krishan K. Chawla

  4. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

    Nikhilesh Chawla

  5. Engineering Mechanics, Zhejiang University Engineering Mechanics, Hangzhou, China

    Weiqiu Chen

  6. Katayanagi Advanced Research Laboratorie, Tokyo University of Technology Katayanagi Advanced Research Laboratorie, Tokyo, Japan

    Yutaka Kagawa

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Chawla, K.K. (2018). Mechanical Testing of Single Fibers. In: Schmauder, S., Chen, CS., Chawla, K., Chawla, N., Chen, W., Kagawa, Y. (eds) Handbook of Mechanics of Materials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6855-3_48-1

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