Author(s)

Thomas I. Altanopoulos, Ioannis G. Raftoyiannis

Steel Structures Laboratory, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

This work addresses the tensile properties of glass fiber reinforced polymers (GFRP) and investigates the different ways of estimating them without the cost associated with experimentation. This attempt is achieved through comparison between experimental results, derived in accordance with the ASTM standards, and results obtained using the mechanics of composite materials. The experimental results are also compared to results derived from work by other researchers in order to corroborate the findings regarding the correlation of tensile properties of the GFRP material and the fiber volume fraction.

Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (GFRP), Tensile Properties, Hand Lay-Up Method

Altanopoulos, T. and Raftoyiannis, I. (2020) Deriving Tensile Properties of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers (GFRP) Using Mechanics of Composite Materials. Open Journal of Composite Materials, 10, 1-14. doi: 10.4236/ojcm.2020.101001.