A parallel-supercomputing investigation of the stiffness of aligned, short-fiber-reinforced composites using the boundary element method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 3477-3491

  Ingber, M S ^a   Papathanasiou, T D ^b  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Aligned short fibers; Boundary element method; Composite materials; Halpin Tsai equations; Modulus of elasticity; Parallel supercomputing

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELASTIC MODULI; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STIFFNESS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VOLUME FRACTION;

HALPIN TSAI EQUATIONS; SHORT FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 0031238351     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970930)40:18<3477::AID-NME225>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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