FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Transverse tensile behaviour of unidirectional plies reinforced with flax fibres BT AF BALEY, C PERROT, Yves BUSNEL, F GUEZENOC, H DAVIES, Peter AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:2; FF 1:;2:PDG-DOP-DCB-ERT-MS;3:;4:;5:PDG-DOP-DCB-ERT-MS; C1 Univ Bretagne Sud, L2PIC, F-56321 Lorient, France. IFREMER, Mat & Struct Grp, ERT, MS, F-29280 Plouzane, France. C2 UBS, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-DOP-DCB-ERT-MS IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-univ-france IF 1.353 TC 111 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-6362.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Unidirectional;Transverse tensile;Polyester;Glass;Flax;Composite materials AB Flax provides a renewable source of fibres with good mechanical properties, which justifies its use as a reinforcement for polymers. Composite materials made with flax which has only undergone mechanical treatments (stripping followed by combing) results in the presence of bundles of fibres. When a unidirectional flax/polyester ply is loaded in transverse tension the damage mechanisms are complex; cracks develop in the matrix, and at the fibre/matrix interface, but they also appear within the fibres themselves and in the lamellae within the fibre bundles. This emphasises the highly anisotropic nature of these flax fibres, whose average longitudinal Young's modulus is 59 GPa and whose transverse modulus is estimated here to be 8 GPa. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PY 2006 PD OCT SO Materials Letters SN 0167-577X PU Elsevier VL 60 IS 24 UT 000240216400016 BP 2984 EP 2987 DI 10.1016/j.matlet.2006.02.028 ID 6362 ER EF