This paper is concerned with the effect of fibre/fibre interaction on the stress distribution and tensile strength of discontinuous, aligned fibre composites. The stress distribution for a rationalized composite is derived which shows good agreement with an experi ment on a large scale model fibre composite. Expressions are also derived for the tensile strength of the rationalized composite, and these appear to provide reasonable approximations for the strength of practical fibre composites.
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