Mechanical Behavior and Fracture Mechanism in Flat Braided Composites. Part 2: Braided Flat Bar with a Circular Hole

Tensile behaviors of braided flat bar with a circular hole being joint part in the structural member are discussed. Moreover, the possibility of the application to structural member with braiding construction for this analysis method is clarified by com paring predicted results with experimental results. The braided flat bar with braided hole has more superior tensile properties than that with machined hole fabricated for compari son. For the numerical analysis, the estimated results well agree with the experimental results, and it is clear that this analysis method may be applied to the estimations of the mechanical properties of structural members with braiding construction.