Computation of the elastic properties of a resin impregnated wire mesh by the means of a homogenisation procedure

The present paper presents a homogenisation technique applied to the problem of calculating equivalent material properties of a resin impregnated wire mesh. Although this type of material can be expected to possess, in general, a four-fold axis of rotational symmetry, it was found that a transversally isotropic model approximates the material behaviour to within 3.5%. It is therefore concluded that a transversally isotropic model is adequate for representing the resin impregnated mesh in structural calculations.