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6 - Computational Grains for Cylindrical Fiber Composites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2023

Leiting Dong
Affiliation:
Beihang University, China
Satya N. Atluri
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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In this chapter, a new kind of Computational Grain (CG) with embedded cylindrical elastic fibers is developed for the micromechanical modeling of fiber-reinforced composites. The trial displacement fields within the CGs are assumed using Papkovich-Neuber solutions. Cylindrical harmonics scaled by characteristic lengths are employed as the P-N potentials. A compatible displacement field is assumed at elemental surfaces and fiber–matrix interfaces, and the stiffness matrices of CGs are derived by a newly developed multi-field boundary variational principle.

Through numerical simulations, we demonstrate that the developed CGs have high computational efficiency, and they can accurately capture the localized stress distributions under various loadings. Computational Grains are also effective for estimating the effective material properties of fiber-reinforced composites, as validated by comparing with experimental results in the literature. Moreover, with the use of parallel computation, the time required for CGs is significantly decreased. Thus, we consider that the kind of CGs developed in this study is an accurate and efficient tool for the micromechanical modeling of fiber composites. Such a tool of micromechanical modeling can also be combined with meso- and macro-scale finite elements for the multi-scale analysis of laminates and composite parts, which will be given in Chapter 12.

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Computational Grains
Micromechanical Genome for Heterogeneous Materials
, pp. 110 - 126
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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