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Adaptive textile‐reinforced composites: Modeling and application
Author(s) -
Linse Thomas,
Ulbricht Volker,
Kluge Axel,
Cherif Chokri
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
pamm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1617-7061
DOI - 10.1002/pamm.201410175
Subject(s) - homogenization (climate) , composite material , materials science , textile , composite number , viscoelasticity , actuator , shape memory alloy , representative elementary volume , reinforcement , structural engineering , computer science , microstructure , engineering , biodiversity , ecology , artificial intelligence , biology
The scope of the present paper is the modeling of the mechanical behavior of textile‐reinforced composites with an integrated system of wires made of shape memory alloys. A phenomenological model for the description of the material behavior of shape memory alloys is implemented in a commercial FE code. As the textile reinforcement shows periodically repeating patterns, the inner architecture of the composite can described by a representative volume element. Effective viscoelastic material parameters of the textile‐reinforced composite are determined with the help of homogenization techniques. For the application of the developed composite structure as a simple actuator, numerical results are compared with experimental data. (© 2014 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)