A calculation of the elastic constants of a unidirectional fibre-reinforced composite
- 1 August 1968
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 1 (8), 1039-1048
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/1/8/311
Abstract
A technique is developed for calculating the elastic constants of a uniaxial fibre-reinforced composite in which long fibres are arranged on a square lattice. Infinite series Airy stress functions are utilized. The boundary value problem for a unit cell is solved numerically by truncating the infinite series and satisfying the boundary conditions at discrete points. For certain systems of practical interest graphical results are presented for the variation of elastic constants with fibre volume fraction.Keywords
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