Abstract: | The specific characteristics of oriented reinforced polymers are quite fully taken into account by a nonlinear anisotropic theory of the same type as the nonlinear theory of elasticity or the deformation theory of plasticity, based on the use of tensor-linear relations containing two quadratic forms of the stress components without the introduction of higher-order tensors. The possibility of extending this theory to the case of uniaxial deformation of carbon-reinforced composites is demonstrated.Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 49–53, January–February, 1976. |