VolFrac_IntFibDistance

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% -- This program plots the variation of Inter fibre distance w.r.t -- %

% -- Volume fraction of fiber (Vf) For a square and hexagonal unit cell %
% Input the dimension of unit cell
R = 1;
% Input a row matrix for volume fraction
Vf = 0.01:0.01:1;
% Calculate the inter fibre distance using derived formulae
pi = 3.1419;
h_square = 2*R*(1-sqrt(4*Vf./pi));
h_hexagon = 2*R*(1-sqrt((2*sqrt(3)*Vf./pi)));
plot(h_square,Vf,h_hexagon,Vf)
title('Variation of Inter fibre distance w.r.t the Volume fraction of fibre')
xlabel('Volume fraction (V_f)')
ylabel('Inter fibre distance (h)')
legend('Square unit cell','Hexagonal Unit Cell')

Published with MATLAB R2013a

1/16/2017 2:27 PM