Proposal for a long-fibre microbuckling scenario during the cure of a thermosetting matrix

Recently, real-time video images of the appearance of undulations on a long T300 single carbon fibre during the curing of a LY556 epoxy matrix were proposed by Jochum et al. [Jochum Ch, Grandidier JC, Smaali M. Experimental study of long T300 carbon fibre undulations during the curing of LY556 epoxy resin. Compos Sci Technol 2007;67:2633–42]. The correlation of the fibre undulation with cure kinetics has established that undulations appear prior...