The primary goal of the study is to develop a protocol to prepare consistent specimens for accurate mechanical testing of high strength copolymer aramid fibers, by removing a coating and disentangling the individual fiber strands without introducing significant chemical or physical degradation.
Forster, A. L., Rodriguez Cardenas, V., Krishnamurthy, A., Tsinas, Z., Engelbrecht-Wiggans, A., Gonzalez, N. Disentangling High Strength Copolymer Aramid Fibers to Enable the Determination of Their Mechanical Properties. J. Vis. Exp. (139), e58124, doi:10.3791/58124 (2018).