A calculation of the elastic constants of a unidirectional composite containing transversely isotropic fibres
- 1 May 1970
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 3 (5) , 672-676
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/3/5/305
Abstract
The basic calculation of the elastic constants of a unidirectional fibre-reinforced composite by Heaton in 1968 is extended to include the case of transversely isotropic fibres. Numerical results are presented for high performance carbon fibres embedded in an epoxy resin.Keywords
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