Abstract
In order to predict the minimum requirement of thickness of MR construction for ship hull from the view point of avoiding the buckling mode of whole plate, which will lead the whole hull to a crucial damage, the authors studied the unidirectional glass fiber reinforced epoxy laminar as a case study on the buckling mode transition from the global one to micro fiber with increase of thickness and volume fraction. We calculated the compressive strength using an elastic plate buckling equation and an equation for micro buckling of fiber. The calculation result was verified by an experimental data. The whole tendency through the considering thickness and volume fraction showed good accordance.
