Experimental study on mechanical properties of FRP components and comparison of steel properties

In order to study the applicability of the Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) composite materials for light structure, a tensile compression test of a large number of FRP samples was carried out. Through statistically analysis of test data, we get the FRP's basic mechanical parameters like tensile strength, elongation, elastic modulus and we get the stress-strain curves. Compared with steel material properties, the tensile strength of the FRP is close to steel, but the elastic modulus is lower than steel's elastic modulus.