Micro-CT analysis of internal geometry of chopped carbon fiber tapes reinforced thermoplastics

Adequate characterization of the internal geometry of random fiber composites for prediction of their properties requires acquisition and analysis of vast amount of data. The present work proposes a method to measure and quantify the internal geometry of ultra-thin chopped carbon fiber tape reinforced thermoplastics (UT-CTT), a kind of randomly oriented strands, using the X-ray micro-CT. The two-scale fiber orientation distributions (orientation...