An Experimental Simulation to Validate FEM to Predict Transverse Young’s Modulus of FRP Composites

Table 2

Comparison of experimental and FEM results with % error.

	Aluminium-Fe	Aluminium-Cu	Aluminium-void
Test 1	51.091	50.812	49.721
Test 2	51.067	50.833	49.879
Test 3	51.127	50.738	49.648
Exptl. average	51.095	50.794	49.749
FEM	50.087	50.00	49.57
Error	1.97%	1.56%	0.36%