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Saying T-1000 Toray is the strongest due to its Ultimate Tensile Strength is a misgiven, as Ultimate Tensile strength rarely used or considered for ductile members, they are considered when you are talking about brittle member
And do tell me which family does Carbon Fibre belong to? Ductile or Brittle?
And here is why the ultimate tensile strength is NOT relevant in Polymer like carbon fibre
On the graph, The point 1 represent the Ultimate Tensile strength, which is the point when the polymer in test fractured. (ie the sample totally broke clean when pulled from both sides) Point 3 is yield point, for which the sample started to deform
However, due to the properties of polymers (which Carbon Fibre are considered polymer) Carbon Fibre will go throughs 2 stage before fracture, instead of simply fracture after pull to Brittle element. The 2 stage will be elastic deformation and plastic deformation.
When a Carbon fibre started being pull, the first stage of deformation is elastic, which the fibre will deform but the deformation is not permanent, at that stage if the tensile force was negated, the fibre will "bounced" back to the original form and the physical properties and physical appearance will not change (Well, they still change a bit but not significantly)
When the Carbon fibre started to enter the Plastic stage, the stress cause a structural failure and the fibre will deform completely and with a physical properties and physical appearance altered, that piece of fibre no longer have the properties of the original fibre, and caused structural failing. Polymer are essential "Broke" at that point.
While stage 3 is the actual fracture, which is the final force applied to separate the fibre intermolecular bonding. Which can be different according to different sample according to their particle properties
Look at the following Video
The sample have pass the "Failure point" when the polymer deform, not when it fracture.
In fact, for ductile material, the point of UTS represent the strength intermolecular bond, which Toray can be said the Hardest (Due to the high intermolecular bond figure) carbon fibre there were in the market, but cannot be said the "Strongest" polymer. That is determined by the Yield Point, where the fibre started to yield to pressure and deform
Imagine this, you use carbon fibre on a plane, would you think the flight stop becoming aerodynamically sustainable when the Carbon Fibre on the wing started to permanently deform, or it only not aerodynamically stable when the fibre fracture?
You can't just take a random figure to prove something is strongest, when that is the only figure favour you. UTS are not relevant in ductile material.
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