Calculation of effective transverse elastic moduli of fiber-reinforced composites by numerical homogenization

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 573-586

  Theocaris, Pericles S ^a   Stavroulakis, G E ^b   Panagiotopoulos, P D ^b  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Composites; Effective moduli; Numerical homogenization

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

NUMERICAL HOMOGENIZATION; TRANSVERSE ELASTIC MODULI;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

COMPOSITES, FIBRE-REINFORCED; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031148268     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(97)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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