Hi I'm doing my final year project testing the compressive and flexural strengths of carbon fibre composites using your 

Hi, it depends how you intend to test it in compression, the thickness and the oritentation of the fibres.

The limit if axially loading a strut will be buckling rather than axail compressive failure then you are also looking at local or global buckling.

It's likely to be either Toray T700 or T300 fibres but you need to add a reduction factor of circa 0.5 for the weave.

http://www.torayca.com/en/index.html

Best bet is to dig out a book from the library and get the generic properties and essentials on how to calulate from first principles

The fibre uses Grafil Pyrofil TR30S which has a datasheet here: http://mrcfac.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TR30S_3K_03_2010.pdf

You can download the datasheet for our resins on the product pages.

Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

Thanks,