Influence of void microstructure on the effective elastic properties of discontinuous fiber-reinforced composites

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (22) ◽  
pp. 2745-2755 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Srinivasulu ◽  
R Velmurugan ◽  
S Jayasankar
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Properties ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Composites ◽  
Reinforced Composites ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Effective Elastic Properties ◽  
Discontinuous Fiber

Micromechanics-based analyses of short fiber-reinforced composites with functionally graded interphases

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 1031-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
Qi He ◽  
Hong-Liang Dai ◽  
Jian Pang ◽  
Liang Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aspect Ratio ◽  
Elastic Properties ◽  
Effective Properties ◽  
Micromechanical Model ◽  
Short Fiber ◽  
Functionally Graded ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Composites ◽  
Reinforced Composites ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
The Matrix

A micromechanical model for short fiber-reinforced composites (SFRCs) with functionally graded interphases and a systematic prediction scheme to determine the effective properties are presented. The matrix and the fibers are regarded to be linear elastic, isotropic, and homogeneous. Fibers are assumed to be ellipsoids coated perfectly by functionally graded interphases, which is supposed to be formed chemically or physically by the constituents near the interface. First, to analyze the grading interphase effect, layer-wise concept is followed to divide the functionally graded interphases into multi-homogeneous sub-layers. Next, to take the effect of functionally graded interphases into account, a combination of multi-inclusion method and Mori–Tanaka method is applied to predict effective elastic properties of this unidirectional SFRCs with respect to the content and aspect ratio of the inclusions. By employing coordinate transformation, spatially elastic moduli are obtained. Finally, Voigt homogenization scheme is used to obtain the overall, averaged, symmetrical elastic properties of the SFRCs. Numerical examples and analyses demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method and indicate the influences of graded interphase, orientation, and aspect ratio of inclusions as well as properties and contents of the constituents on the overall properties of SFRCs.

A New Embedded-Zone Method on Computation of the Transverse Elastic Properties of Fiber-Reinforced Composites

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaochun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Plane Strain ◽  
Elastic Properties ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Composites ◽  
Reinforced Composites ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Zone Method ◽  
Two Dimension ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Strain Model ◽  
Plane Strain Model

There are many methods on computation of transverse elastic properties of unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites when using the finite element method, such as three-dimension model, two-dimension plane strain model, unit cell model, etc[1]. But unit cell models could be used only when the fibers are arrayed regularly. The computations of three- and two-dimension plane strain models are tremendous when many fine fibers are spread randomly in the matrix so that the properties of block of composite must be computed. The paper proposes a new embedded-zone method to compute the transverse elastic properties for a block of fiber-reinforced composites containing a great amount of fibers embedded in the matrix stochastically while using very little computational work compared with three- and two-dimension plane strain model. The transverse elastic modulus and shear modulus of unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites are computed.

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