Review Article
Micromechanics of Cracked Laminates under Uniaxial Load: A Comparison between Approaches
Table 2
Elastic engineering constants for glass-fiber/epoxy and carbon fiber/epoxy composites [
5].
| Property | GFRP | CFRP |
| Longitudinal Young’s modulus (), GPa | 41.7 | 208.3 | Transverse Young’s modulus (), GPa | 13.0 | 6.5 | Longitudinal shear modulus (), GPa | 3.4 | 1.65 | Transverse shear modulus (), GPa | 4.58 | 2.3 | Longitudinal Poisson’s ratio () | 0.3 | 0.255 | Transverse Poisson’s ratio () | 0.45 | 0.413 |
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