Abstract
This paper describes the influences of the glass content and the environmental temperature on the static behavior of glass fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) subjected to compressive load in the direction perpendicular to the laminated layers. (See Fig. 1 (b))
Although several papers were reported associated with the compressive strength of FRP laminated materials, in most case, most of the studies have been confined to the compressive stress in the parallel direction of the laminated layers and few papers are reported regarding the compressive stress in the perpendicular direction (the case shown in Fig. 1 (b)).
A method developed for the theoretical analysis of anisotropic laminated materials was applied to the latter.
