Tape-shaped prepreg and fiber-reinforced molded object
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
InventorsTakayasu FUJIURA, Naoyuki TASHIRO
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Abstract
An aspect of the present invention is a tape-shaped prepreg which includes a plurality of unidirectionally oriented fibers and a binder infiltrated into these fibers. The tape-shaped prepreg is characterized by having an average thickness of 50 μm to 150 μm and a content percentage of these fibers of 30 vol % to 60 vol %. The prepreg is further characterized in that: a fractal dimension D of a coefficient of variation Cv(n) is 0.4 to 1.5; and a degree of orientation P, expressed by the following equation, is 0.8 or greater and less than 1.0: Degree of orientation P=1−((minor-axis length of approximate ellipse)/(major-axis length thereof)).
Claims5
1:
- A tape-shaped prepreg, comprising:
- a plurality of unidirectionally oriented fibers and
- a binder infiltrated into these fibers,
- wherein
- the tape-shaped prepreg has an average thickness of 50 μm to 150 μm;
- a content percentage of the plurality of fibers in the tape-shaped prepreg is 30 vol % to 60 vol %;
- a fractal dimension D of a coefficient of variation Cv(n), which is determined from an areal proportion a of fibers in each of regions obtained by equally dividing a cross-sectional image perpendicular to an orientation direction of the plurality of fibers into n sections, where n is an integer of 2 or larger, along each of lengthwise and crosswise directions, is 0.4 to 1.5;
- and
- a degree of orientation P, which is expressed by equation (1):
- Degree of orientation P=1−((minor-axis length of approximate ellipse)/(major-axis length thereof)) equation (1), and
- determined from an approximate ellipse of a power-spectrum image obtained by Fourier transform of a cross-sectional image parallel to the orientation direction of the plurality of fibers, is 0.8 or greater and less than 1.0.
2:
- The tape-shaped prepreg according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of fibers contains a glass fiber, a carbon fiber, an organic fiber, a metal fiber, or a combination thereof as a major component.
3:
- The tape-shaped prepreg according to claim 1, wherein a major component of the binder is a thermoplastic resin.
4:
- The tape-shaped prepreg according to claim 1, wherein the tape-shaped prepreg has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 2 μm to 8 μm.
5:
- A fiber-reinforced molded object, comprising:
- the tape-shaped prepreg according to claim 1.