Abstract: | Conclusions 1. The most general form of failure of laminar fiberglass-plastics in compression, as revealed on the basis of experimental studies, is chipping along an inclined area.2. A numerical comparison of the theoretical and experimental values of the chip angles for the materials studied supports the suggestion of interpreting the chip bands as slippage bands in an ideal elastoplastic anisotropic body.3. On the basis of this suggestion, valuable equations (11)–(13) have been obtained for calculating the strength of fiberglass-plastics in compression as a function of the strength properties of the matrix and of the reinforcement, the percent reinforcement, and the cutting angle .M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 240–243, March–April, 1978. |