aUniversité de Sidi Bel Abbes, Département de physique, BP 89 Cité Ben M’hidi, 22000 Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria
bLaboratoire des Matériaux et Hydrologie, Université de Sidi Bel Abbes, BP 89 Cité Ben M’hidi, 22000 Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria
Abstract:
The development of transverse cracks can be detrimental to the stiffness and dimensional stability of composite laminates. In this investigation, a modified shear lag analysis, taking into account the concept of stress perturbation function, is employed to evaluate the effect of transverse cracks on the stiffness reduction in high temperature angle-ply laminated composites. The results present well the effect of high temperature and the fibre orientation of the outer layers on the degradation of mechanical properties of the angle-ply polymer composite laminates.