Mechanical Properties of Nylon6 Cord-Rubber Composite Subjected to Biaxial Tensile Loads

Abstract

Effects of perpendicular tensile loads on the mechanical behavior and biaxial tensile load ratios on stress-strain behaviors of single ply of nylon cord-rubber composite are studied respectively under biaxial tensile conditions employing a cruciform specimen. Experimental results indicate that transverse mechanical properties of nylon cord-rubber composite with longitudinal constant tensile loads are distinct from its uniaxial transverse tensile mechanical properties. This can be attributed to the action of longitudinal tension that makes the material rigidify in the direction perpendicular to the fiber. The mode of failure is representative of matrix-dominated failure. However, effects of transverse constant tensile load on longitudinal tensile mechanical properties are indistinctive compared with corresponding uniaxial longitudinal tensile mechanical properties. This could be due to a larger difference between longitudinal and transverse mechanical properties. Its dominating failure mode is typical fiber-dominated mode. Effects on biaxial tensile load ratios on its transverse stress-strain behaviors are obvious; whereas, longitudinal stress-strain behaviors under different biaxial tensile load ratios are almost identical. Large differences between longitudinal and transverse tensile properties can be direct reasons resulting in dissimilarities between longitudinal and transverse tensile mechanical behaviors of cord-rubber composite under biaxial tensile loading.

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nylon cord-rubber composite cruciform specimen biaxial tensile load ratios biaxial tensile condition

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