شبكة التخطيط العمراني بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
للكاتبين :
El-HABAK A.M and IBRAHIM S.S*
Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
*Housing Building Research Center Cairo, Egypt
1. ABSTRACT
A comparative study of the tensile and compressive behaviour of glass/polyester composite is
presented. All specimens were fabricated as unidirectional rods by a resin transfer moulding
(RTM) technique with fiber volume fraction of 20%, 30% and 41%. The influence of fiber
volume fraction and specimen geometry (diameter) on the composite strength and stiffness as
well as the composite strain under both types of loading are investigated. Experimental results
show that the optimum fiber volume fraction for strength under both the tensile and the
compressive load is 30%.