Quantitative modelling of viscoelasticity of isotropic fibrous composites with viscoelastic matrices

摘要

Despite the wide usage of isotropic fibrous composites with a viscoelastic polymer matrix,no analytic model for their mechanical behaviour is known.This paper develops such a model for time-dependent Young's modulus,showing that for typical constituents the time constants of composites are up to about 6% greater than the matrix shear time constant.Viscoelasticity is strongly suppressed for stiff fibres even at modest fibre volume fractions.Comparison with known results for particle and oriented fibre compos...