Elastic Compression of a Fiber Network

Toll, S.; Manson, J.-A. E.

doi:10.1115/1.2895906

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Elastic Compression of a Fiber Network

Toll, S. Laboratoire de Technologie des Composites et Polyme`res, Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Manson, J.-A. E. Laboratoire de Technologie des Composites et Polyme`res, Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

1995-3-1

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Journal of Applied Mechanics. - ASME International. - 1995, vol. 62, no. 1, p. 223-226

English A constitutive equation for a planar fiber network under transverse compression is derived allowing for an in-plane fiber orientation distribution. The fibers are assumed to be well dispersed in space and to have a large aspect ratio and uniform diameter. A compression experiment, performed on a glass-fiber network obtained by ashing a commercial composite preform, is accurately described by the theory.

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