Glassfibre and plywood properties
Glassfibre and plywood properties
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Hello,
I have to model some parts of a structure with plywood and glassfibre, anybody knows what their properties are? How can I do it in ABAQUS?
Thanks in advance
I have to model some parts of a structure with plywood and glassfibre, anybody knows what their properties are? How can I do it in ABAQUS?
Thanks in advance





RE: Glassfibre and plywood properties
Plywood properties are for sure dependent on degree of moisture, would, orientation of layers etc. Anything between 20-40 GPa in E-modulus for a quasi-isotropic laminate should be possible. Can you get testdata?
"model some parts of a structure with plywood and glassfibre" is a very loose description of your material...
RE: Glassfibre and plywood properties
My structure is a part of a bus, I am doing an impact essay in dynamic explicit. The glassfibre part is an inner curved shell touching the ceiling with 1 milimeter of thickness, the plywood part is the floor of the bus where people walk to the seats.
By the way, I need density too for the dynamic model, do u know their densities too?
Lots of thanks
Ferro
RE: Glassfibre and plywood properties
Plywood density is about 1 g/cm3, floats if not too much phenolic resin. By the way I believe now i overestimated the E-modulus of plywood, should be more like 10-12 GPa at 23 degrees C and 50% RH. For ex birch wood is 12 GPa.
RE: Glassfibre and plywood properties
Sorry, it´s my fault, the glassfibre is a shell of 2 mm of thickness in the OUTER ceiling, in the inner ceiling there is a curved shell of plywood of 6 mm of thickness. The glassfibre curved shells are divided in 2 parts of 1.5 m and 1 m length and about 12,5 m of curvature. Both of them are about 2 m wide; they are some kind of stiffners for the ceiling main structure. I don´t know what kind of glassfiber (or plywood)is, I´ll have to choose the most suitable for my model.
RE: Glassfibre and plywood properties
RE: Glassfibre and plywood properties
Sorry, of course it is a matrix of resin and glassfiber.
I need the properties of the resin (density, Young´s modulus and Poisson´s ratio) with glassfibers, one which is suitable for my model.
Thanks again
ferro1001
RE: Glassfibre and plywood properties
I have found an ineteresting web page in order to calculate the density of composite of resin with glass fiber:
http://experts.about.com/q/2430/3567225.htm