Determination of Mechanical Characteristics of Unidirectional Fiber Composites

Methods of determination of effective mechanical properties of unidirectional fiber composites are discussed. These are mixture rule, Halpin-Tsai and Hashin-Rosen methods. Comparison of analytical calculations of the mechanical characteristics of the composites with numerical results obtained by the SYSPLY package are used to specify analytic equations defining the characteristics in frameworks of each method. The field of application of each method is discussed.