The present invention relates to a high-strength bolt including a reinforcing fiber and a resin material.
As a conventional fiber-reinforced resin bolt, there is a fiber-reinforced resin bolt obtained by press-forming a rod-shaped material obtained by incorporating, into a synthetic resin, long fibers of carbon fiber or the like in such a manner that the fibers are arranged in the longitudinal direction, wherein at least the long fibers in a straight part are arranged linearly along the axial direction at outer peripheral parts of the fiber-reinforced resin bolt and arranged in a bent shape at an axial center part thereof (for example, Patent Document 1).
However, the conventional fiber-reinforced resin bolt described above has a structure in which the long fibers in the straight part are linearly arranged along the axial direction at the outer peripheral parts and arranged in a bent shape at the axial center part, and thus involves a problem of insufficient strength as a bolt.
The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and an object thereof is to provide a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt having a strength higher than that of a conventional fiber-reinforced resin bolt, and a fiber-reinforced resin bolt.
A method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt according to the present invention includes forming a fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) by:
a winding step of winding a reinforcing fiber resin tape (14), which is formed in a band shape by integrating a reinforcing fiber (12) with a resin in such a manner that the reinforcing fiber (12) is oriented in a longitudinal direction, so that the reinforcing fiber (12) is arranged concentrically around a winding axis, thereby forming a reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10); and
a curing step of placing the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10) formed by the winding step in a die (40) whose inner wall surface is formed with a screw shape, and pressurizing the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10) placed in the die (40) from one direction of the winding axis toward the other, thereby curing the resin of the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10).
In such a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt, the reinforcing fiber resin tape (14) is wound concentrically around the winding axis to form the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10).
Then, in a state of being placed in the die (40), the formed reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10) is pressurized from one direction of the winding axis toward the other to cure the resin of the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10) (curing step).
Here, upon pressurization of the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10), the reinforcing fiber layer extends spirally in the winding axis direction to form a reinforcing fiber layer (70).
The inner wall surface of the die (40) is formed with a screw shape, and the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10) is placed in the die (40) so that its winding axis is parallel to the inner wall surface formed with a screw shape. Therefore, when the resin is cured, a screw is formed on its outer wall surface.
The fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) manufactured by such a manufacture method has, inside the cured resin, the reinforcing fiber layer (70) wound spirally around the winding axis.
When such a fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) is used, axial tensile force and circumferential bending force are applied to the fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1). The tensile force and the bending force are received by the reinforcing fiber (12). Since the reinforcing fiber layer (70) is formed spirally, both the tensile force and the bending force are received by the reinforcing fiber (12).
Therefore, the fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) can have a strength higher than that of a conventional bolt in which the reinforcing fiber is arranged only in the axial direction.
The method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt according to Application Example 1 includes, after the winding step, a bending step of bending the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10) formed by the winding step with respect to an axis parallel to the winding axis.
According to such a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt, the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10) formed by the winding step is further bent in an axis parallel to the winding axis by the bending step. Therefore, the formed reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10) has a more multilayered structure, and thus it is possible to manufacture a fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) having a higher strength.
Furthermore, even if the diameter of the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10) to be formed by winding is increased in the winding step, the reinforcing fiber resin tape layer (10) having an appropriate diameter can be formed by the subsequent bending step. Therefore, the winding step can be facilitated.
A method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt according to the present invention includes forming a fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) by:
a winding step of winding a reinforcing fiber tape (62), which is formed in a band shape in such a manner that a reinforcing fiber (12) is oriented in a longitudinal direction, so that the reinforcing fiber (12) is arranged concentrically around a winding axis, thereby forming a reinforcing fiber tape layer (60);
a resin injection step of placing the reinforcing fiber tape layer (60) formed by the winding step in a die (40) whose inner wall surface is formed with a screw shape, and injecting a resin into the die (40) in which the reinforcing fiber tape layer (60) is placed; and a curing step of pressurizing the die (40) into which the resin is injected by the resin injection step from one direction of the winding axis toward the other, thereby curing the resin containing the reinforcing fiber tape layer (60).
In such a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt, the reinforcing fiber tape (62) is wound concentrically around the winding axis to form the reinforcing fiber tape layer (60).
Then, the formed reinforcing fiber tape layer (60) is placed in the die (40), and the resin is injected (resin injection step). The die (40) into which the resin is injected is pressurized from one direction of the winding axis to the other to cure the resin containing the reinforcing fiber tape layer (60) (curing step).
Here, the reinforcing fiber tape layer (60), when heated and pressurized, extends spirally in the winding axis direction. The inner wall surface of the die (40) is formed with a screw shape, and the reinforcing fiber tape layer (60) is placed in the die (40) so that its winding axis is parallel to the inner wall surface formed with a screw shape. Therefore, when the resin is cured, a screw is formed on its outer wall surface.
The fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) manufactured by such a manufacture method can have a strength higher than that of a conventional bolt in which the reinforcing fiber is arranged only in the axial direction, similarly to the fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) in Application Example 1.
The method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt according to Application Example 3 includes, after the winding step, a bending step of bending the reinforcing fiber tape layer (60) formed by the winding step with respect to an axis parallel to the winding axis. The resin injection step includes placing the reinforcing fiber tape layer (60) formed by the bending step in a die (40) whose inner wall surface is formed with a screw shape, and injecting a resin into the die (40) in which the reinforcing fiber tape layer (60) is placed.
According to such a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt, the same effect as that of Application Example 3 can be obtained.
A fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) according to the present invention includes:
a reinforcing fiber layer (70) in which a reinforcing fiber (12), which is formed in a band shape in such a manner that the fiber is oriented in a longitudinal direction, is formed in a state where the reinforcing fiber (12) is wound spirally around a central axis;
a resin layer (20) containing the reinforcing fiber layer (70); and
a screw part (30) formed on an outer peripheral surface thereof by heating and pressurization in a state where the reinforcing fiber layer (70) is contained in the resin layer (20).
Such a fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) can have a strength higher than that of a conventional bolt in which the reinforcing fiber is arranged only in the axial direction, similarly to the fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) manufactured by the method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt according to Application Example 1.
In the fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) according to Application Example 3, the reinforcing fiber (12) is carbon fiber-reinforced plastic.
In such a fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1), carbon fiber-reinforced plastic is used as the reinforcing fiber (12). Thus, the fiber-reinforced resin bolt (1) can be lightweight and have a high strength.
Hereinafter, embodiments to which the present invention is applied will be described with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the following embodiments at all, and can take various forms within the technical scope of the present invention.
(Manufacture of Fiber-Reinforced Resin Bolt)
A method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 (hereinafter, also referred to simply as “bolt 1”) will be described with reference to
First, as shown in
Here, the phrase “integrating CFRP with a predetermined amount of resin” means that long fibers of CFRP are arranged in a band shape, immersed in the resin for solidification, and formed in a tape shape. The amounts of CFRP and resin at this time are the amount of CFRP necessary for attaining a predetermined strength of the bolt 1, and determined by the amount of resin necessary for forming a screw part 30 as the bolt 1 (amount of resin after winding) or the type of thermosetting resin.
In the present embodiment, a thermosetting resin such as vinyl ester is used as the resin. Furthermore, the proportions of the CFRP 12 and the thermosetting resin are 50% to 60% by weight and 50% to 40% by weight, respectively, and, particularly in the present embodiment, were set to 57% by weight for the CFRP 12 and 43% by weight for the thermosetting resin.
Next, electric power is supplied to a heater 82 of a die 40 to preheat the die 40 (about 90° C. in the case of vinyl ester) so as to attain a temperature lower than the curing temperature of the thermosetting resin.
Next, as shown in
As shown in
In
That is, as shown in
In the die 40b, a head part 43b, a cylindrical part 44b, an incomplete screw part 45b, a screw part 46b and an insertion hole 47b having the same shapes as those of the die 40a are formed at line-symmetric positions of the die 40b. Hereinafter, a hole formed by the insertion hole 47a and the insertion hole 47b is referred to as an insertion hole 47.
Further, the die 40a is provided with four through holes 49a for integrating the die 40a with the die 40b with the bolts 41 and the nuts 42 and two pins 48a for positioning at the time of integration.
The die 40b is provided with four through holes 49b and two holes 48b fitted with two pins 48a, respectively, at line-symmetric positions of the die 40a.
Furthermore, two (a total of four as the die 40) heaters 82 are embedded in the dies 40a and 40b, respectively, so that the die 40 can be heated by supplying power to the heaters 82 from the external.
The CFRP resin tape layer 10 is placed in the die 40, the halved dies 40 are integrated with the bolts 41 and the nuts 42, and the insertion tool 50 is inserted into the insertion hole 47 as shown in
Then, as shown in
After completion of the curing step, the power supply to the heaters 82 is stopped. The nuts 42 of the die 40 are loosened, the die 40 is disassembled, and the bolt 1 is removed from the die 40.
The fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 manufactured by such a manufacture method includes a resin layer 20, the screw part 30, a head part 31, a cylindrical part 32, and an incomplete screw part 33, as shown in
Therefore, the fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 has, inside the cured resin layer 20, a CFRP layer 70 wound spirally around the winding axis.
As shown in
The CFRP 12 receives the axial tensile force and circumferential bending force applied to such a fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1. Since the CFRP layer 70 has a spiral shape, the CFRP 12 receives both the tensile force and the bending force.
Therefore, the fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 can have a strength higher than that of a conventional bolt in which the reinforcing fiber is arranged only in the axial direction.
Further, in the fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1, CFRP (carbon fiber-reinforced plastic) is used as the reinforcing fiber 12. Thus, the fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 can be lightweight and have a high strength.
Here,
As shown in
Next, a second embodiment in which the carbon fiber content rate and resin content rate of the fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 are changed will be described. The material and manufacture method for the fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 in the second embodiment are the same as those for the fiber-reinforced bolt 1 in the first embodiment, and thus descriptions thereof will be omitted.
The fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 of M3 size was used as a test body to perform the tensile break test in the following three cases:
as shown in
As shown in
In contrast, the conventional M3 RENY bolt exhibits a tensile breaking load of 762 [N], and it can be seen that the fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 has a tensile break strength which is about 2.7 to 3.1 times higher than that of the RENY bolt.
In addition, the conventional M3 PEEK bolt exhibits a tensile breaking load of 430 [N], and it can be seen that the fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 has a tensile break strength which is about 4.7 to 5.5 times higher than that of the PEEK bolt.
From the above, it can be seen that a sufficient tensile break strength can be obtained even when the proportions of the CFRP 12 and the thermosetting resin are 40% to 60% by weight and 60% to 40% by weight, respectively.
Next, a third embodiment in which a bending step is added after the winding step in the first embodiment will be described.
In the winding step in the third embodiment, unlike the winding shape of the CFRP resin tape 14 in the first embodiment, the CFRP resin tape 14 is concentrically wound around the winding axis so as to have a diameter of several centimeters, thereby forming the ring-shaped CFRP resin tape layer 10.
As a winding method at this time, the CFRP resin tape 14 is wound around a columnar or cylindrical bar material 90 as shown in
In the bending step, as shown in
The curing step in the third embodiment is the same as that in the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.
The fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 manufactured by the manufacture method including the above-described steps has an improved strength (tensile breaking load) as a bolt because the CFRP layer 60 is further multilayered.
Furthermore, even if the diameter of the CFRP resin tape layer 10 to be formed by winding is increased in the winding step, the CFRP resin tape layer 10 having an appropriate diameter can be formed by the subsequent bending step. Therefore, the winding step can be facilitated.
Next, the fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 using a CFRP tape 62 instead of the CFRP resin tape 14 will be described.
While the CFRP resin tape 14 is formed in a band shape by integrating the CFRP fiber with the predetermined amount of resin so that the CFRP fiber is oriented in the longitudinal direction, the CFRP tape 62 is formed by arranging long fibers of CFRP in such a manner that the fibers of CFRP are oriented in the longitudinal direction and bundling them, or forming a fiber bundle into a band shape with a small amount of resin.
The winding step in a fourth embodiment is the same as that in the first embodiment except that the CFRP tape layer 60 is formed using the CFRP tape 62 instead of forming the CFRP resin tape layer 10 using the CFRP resin tape 14, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.
After the CFRP tape layer 60 is placed in this die 40, the halved dies 40 are integrated with the bolts 41 and the nuts 42, and a thermosetting resin such as vinyl ester is injected into the die 40 from the insertion hole 47.
After injection of the resin into the die 40, the insertion tool 50 is inserted into the insertion hole 47 as in the first embodiment. In this state, the resin within the die 40 is pressurized by depressing the head part 52 with a slide 81 of the pressing machine, and, at the same time, power is supplied to the heaters 82 to heat the die 40, thereby curing the resin.
After completion of the curing step, the nuts 42 of the die 40 are loosened, the die 40 is disassembled, and the bolt 1 is removed from the die 40.
The fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 manufactured by such a manufacture method has similar structure and performance to those of the first embodiment (see
Next, a fifth embodiment will be described. The fifth embodiment is an embodiment in which a bending step is added to the fourth embodiment, similarly to the third embodiment (a bending step is added after the winding step in the first embodiment). In this case, the steps are the same as those of the third embodiment except that the CFRP tape 62 is used in place of the CFRP resin tape 14 used in the third embodiment, and thus a detailed description thereof is omitted (see
The fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 manufactured by the manufacture method according to the fifth embodiment has similar structure and performance as those of the fiber-reinforced resin bolt 1 manufactured by the manufacture method according to the third embodiment. Further, as is the case with the third embodiment, the winding step can be facilitated.
(1) In the above embodiments, CFRP (carbon fiber-reinforced plastic) is used as the reinforcing fiber 12. However, instead of CFRP, an inorganic fiber-based reinforcing fiber such as glass fiber-reinforced plastic (GFRP) or an organic fiber-based reinforcing fiber such as aramid fiber-reinforced plastic (AFRP) may be used.
(2) In the above embodiments, a thermosetting resin such as vinyl ester is used as the resin. However, a thermoplastic resin such as PEEK (polyetheretherketone) or Teflon (registered trademark) may be used. In that case, it is not necessary to heat the die 40 up to the thermosetting temperature in the curing step.
(3) In the above embodiments, in the bending step of forming the CFRP resin tape layer 10 and the CFRP tape layer 60, the ring-shaped CFRP resin tape layer 10 and CFRP tape layer 60 are each collapsed from the lateral direction into a band shape, and wound concentrically around one end thereof as a central axis. However, the ring-shaped CFRP resin tape layer 10 and CFRP tape layer 60 may each be bent several times using the axis parallel to the winding axis as a bending axis. In other words, the CFRP resin tape layer 10 and the CFRP tape layer 60 may each be bent several times in a direction perpendicular to the orientation of the fibers of the CFRP 12.
(4) In the above embodiments, the inner surface shape of the die 40 is indicated as an example of the outer shape of the bolt 1. However, the shape is not limited to this, and may be any other shape such as a shape having no cylindrical part 32.
(5) In the above embodiments, the heaters 82 are used to heat the die 40. However, a method capable of heating the die 40 to the curing temperature of the thermosetting resin, for example, any other heating means of circulating a heated liquid inside the die 40, winding a nichrome wire around the die 40, or the like, may be used.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2018-002619 | Jan 2018 | JP | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/JP2019/000777 | 1/11/2019 | WO | 00 |