The mechanical behaviours have been investigated of flexible plastic sheets reinforced with plain woven fabrics.
The relationship between the expermental results and the theoretical values have been analyzed by using the law of composite and the elastic theory.
The results are as follows :
1) The strength of flexible plastic sheet is approximately equal to the value which was calculated by the strength of the fibers and the matrix using the law of composite.
2) Flexible plastic sheet has the elastic properties and depends on the structure of plain woven fabrics. In this paper, the elastic theory of the fiber-reinforced composite material can be applied to the plastic sheets. The theoretical values thus obtained agree well with the experimental results.
3) If a total denier per unit width is equal, little difference is found in the tensile strength of flexible plastic sheet.
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