Forseeing of Fracture in CFGFRP

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The author has been considering a design the material which must have two stages during fracture process. The material has been given intelligence from a view point of a mechanical property. The double-waist material is made from combination of the material A (high modulus, small elongation) and the material B (high ductility, large elongation). CFGFRP is a material from this view point, which purpose is a substitution of steel reinforcements for concrete developed by Simizu Corporation. It is a self-dianostic material, a seed which can move easily in the material A but not in the material B.When a capability of the seed motion is investigated, it moves easily while the material A stays sound, and there is a range where the material B is still sound after fracture of the material A.The width of this range can be designed by appropriately selecting moduli and elongations of the material A and B.Electricity and light are easily detected as movable seeds. Especially concerning for electricity, measurement of resistance is useful for ordinary equipments. Namely, in combination of the material A as a conductor and B as an insulator, after lost of conductivity it reaches a caution range, but it has a capacity to reach to a fatal fracture because B is still sound. This is the design of self-diagnosis. The authors selected carbon fiber as A and glass fiber as B, and this selection agreed with CFGFRP developed by Shimizu Corporation.