Modeling of the elastic characteristics of a long-fiber reinforced composite with an arbitrary orientation of the reinforcing fibers

Currently, the question of the best scheme for constructing a mathematical model of a homogeneous anisotropic elastic material equivalent to fiber reinforced plastic composite (FRP) with arbitrary laminate stacking sequence configuration, have been remained open. A new method for the theoretical prediction of anisotropic elastic characteristics of material equivalent to a given FRP is suggested in this paper. Results are obtained for representative volume elemen (RV) which has been cut out in three different ways from FRP. Calculations for a specific FRP have shown that the FRP replacement by a homogeneous anisotropic material equivalent to it leads to an error order 10% for the elastic properties.