Tensile and compressive properties of chopped carbon fiber tapes reinforced thermoplastics with different fiber lengths and molding pressures

Tensile and compressive behaviors of chopped carbon fiber tapes reinforced thermoplastics have been investigated by varying compression molding conditions (to study the effect of the molding pressure) and the tape length (to analyze the fiber length effect on the mechanical properties of produced composites). Fractographic analysis of prepared specimens conducted after the experiments indicated that the obtained modulus values were almost...