Manufacturing and Shear Response Characterization of Carbon Nanofiber Modified CFRP Using the Out-of-Autoclave-Vacuum-Bag-Only Cure Process

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">System</td><td align="center">Shear modulus (GPa)</td><td align="center">Shear strength (MPa)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pure epoxy </td><td align="center">1.523 </td><td align="center">70.3</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Randomly oriented CNF/epoxy</td><td align="center">4.178 </td><td align="center">191.4</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Predicted shear moduli and failure strengths of the pure epoxy and CNF modified epoxy.

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Table 3: Manufacturing and Shear Response Characterization of Carbon Nanofiber Modified CFRP Using the Out-of-Autoclave-Vacuum-Bag-Only Cure Process 