Abstract
The independent elastic constants of plastics unidirectionally reinforced with transversely isotropic fibers have been determined. It has been assumed that the distribution of reinforcement in a transverse section of the plastic is regularly rectangular or hexagonal. To determine the transverse elastic modulus and the shear modulus in the plane of reinforcement, a constancy-of-plane-sections hypothesis was used. Values of deformative characteristics determined by the assumed calculational dependences have been compared with the experimental ones for plastics reinforced with graphite fibers.
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Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 4, pp. 631–639, July–August, 1972.
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Bulavs, F.Y., Auzukalns, Y.V. & Skudra, A.M. Deformative characteristics of plastics reinforced with high-modulus anisotropic fibers. Polymer Mechanics 8, 545–552 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00855580
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