Improved Approximation of Transverse and Shear Stiffness for High Volume Fraction Uniaxial Composites - ScienceDirect
With uniaxial composites, the matrix material properties dominate the overall transverse and shear composite stiffness. Knowledge of these quantities are of practical importance in composite structures such as large wind turbine blades, which despite having a predominantly uniaxial layup, have both their torsional response and buckling behavior as critical design considerations.
