Effect of Winding Tension on Elastic Modulus of Filament Wound Composite Cylinder under Axial Loading

Abstract

Effect of winding tension on elastic modulus of filament wound composite pipes were investigated with experiments in this paper. Three winding tension configuration were utilized and axial tension experiments were carried out. quantity of fiber tension descent from inner to outside in each configuration, which is always used in practices. The result of experiment shows that elastic modulus increase with fiber tension's raising and effect of fiber tension is not too remarkable.