Hello,

I am looking for relations/formula that can provide me the required fiber tension for working carbon fiber material in filament winding machine.
 
A preliminary study reveals that the determination of the required tension for a particular fiber depends on the part diameter,pattern to be wound and material of the fiber and tension determination is done experimentally.

What range of tension should i set my filament winding machine on? what governs its determination and can it be found by calculations?

Please cite references .

regards,

One of the factors is fiber slippage at the end of the pipe, when the direction of the fiber is being changed. If the tension isn't high enough the fiber will not stay in place due to lack of friction.

Which filament winder do you have? Professional one, own construction, X-Winder? Which software do you use?

thank you for your reply brainfort.

i am actually looking to reach these values theoretically before actually going down to the machine..

regards,

Brainfort,

It is a professional,built for special purpose filament winding machine..

i just need to know the fiber tension for setting up the winding process for carbon fiber.how to have it in quantitative terms.10 kN.ok..why? why not 14 kN.

regards,