© CCM 2020 - 18th European Conference on Composite Materials. All rights reserved. A technique is demonstrated for creating controlled levels of in-plane fibre waviness. Using this technique, a large batch of specimens were created and then characterised by ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation and a novel strain-based evaluation technique. Predictive empirical models of remnant strength were fitted to the measurements and the strain-based predictions were found to have significantly lower levels of uncertainty relative to ultrasound based predictions.