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Two‐scale simulation of damage in unidirectionally fibre reinforced composite materials
Author(s) -
Koester B.,
Matzenmiller A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pamm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1617-7061
DOI - 10.1002/pamm.200700625
Subject(s) - representative elementary volume , homogeneous , composite number , scale (ratio) , materials science , finite element method , composite material , length scale , macroscopic scale , volume (thermodynamics) , statistical physics , mechanics , physics , structural engineering , engineering , thermodynamics , microstructure , quantum mechanics
The finite element analysis of engineering structures usually assumes a homogeneous as well as a continuous medium. The heterogeneity of matter, which is always found on a sufficiently small length scale is neglected by replacing the inhomogeneous medium through a model of a mathematically homogenized material. The macroscopic constitutive behaviour is derived from volume averaging procedures that smear the microscopic heterogeneities. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)