ANALYSIS OF BEAM BENDING EXPERIMENTS OF FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITES.

Abstract

The investigation revealed that standard homogeneous isotropic beam theory cannot be used without modification for analyzing data obtained from bending experiments on fiber reinforced composites. Modified equations were obtained by reducing laminated plate equations to laminated beam formulas. For a composite having a large shear coupling compliance, it was shown that a very high ratio of length to width is necessary to validate the one-dimensional assumptions of beam theory. This conclusion was substantiated by experimental data. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0694517

Entities

People

  • J. M. Whitney

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Composite Materials
  • Couplings
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Fiber Reinforced Composites
  • Materials
  • Reinforced Plastics
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Reinforced Composite Materials