Stiffness characteristics of angle-ply CFRP composites - an approximate theory (IM-POLY-012)

A theory for calculating the components of the compliance matrix Sij of an angle-ply composite is developed. The theoretical predictions are compared with experimental data for a CFRF system and the agreement is reasonable for the tensile components Sij (i,j = 1,2,3). However, the results for the shear constants Sii...