AN EXPRESSION METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF REINFORCEMENT CONFIGURATION OF FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES

Abstract

Many kinds of reinforcement configurations have been developed with the progress of fiber reinforced composites. Reinforcement configurations vary from one to three dimensions. Some methods are available in the literature for classifying various reinforcement configurations qualitatively. In this paper, efforts are made to develop a method for expressing various reinforcement configurations quantitatively. For this purpose two indices, structural index (D) and scattered index (C), are proposed. Furthermore the geometric dimension (κ) and the degree of scatter (ζ) are calculated. This method is applied successfully to several reinforcement configurations.