ABSTRACT
This paper deals with experiments and numerical simulations of composite material with Polyphenylene sulfide matrix and carbon and glass fibres; the main goal is determine tensile properties of composite materials and compare with numerical simulations, to predict the properties and the study effect of fiber type, number of layers and fiber orientation on the properties. For this purpose tension test and their computational simulations by ANSYS were carried out. The results show that the tensile strength increases with the increase number of layers for both type of fibers, numerical simulation show good agreement with experimental results.

Key words: Polyphenylene sulfide, ANSYS, tensile properties, numerical simulation.