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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 1 Material properties of the fiber rayon and matrix

From: Experimental study on the compression behavior of long timber column strengthened with the novel hybrid fiber sheets

Fiber and matrix

Tensile strength/MPa

Elasticity (or tensile) modulus/GPa

Elongation/%

Density/g·cm−3

Carbon fiber (Toray T300–3 K)

3530

230

1.5

1.76

Aramid fiber (Kevlar 29)

1840

40–70

3.1

1.44

Glass fiber (JuShi e-glass 300tex)

2000–3000

30

2.0–3.0

2.58

MR241 AB

40

2.4

/

2.0