Voxel-based meshing and unit-cell analysis of textile composites

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 977-1006

  Kim, Hyung Joo ^a   Swan, Colby C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated meshing; Effective properties; Homogenization; Mesh refinement; Periodic media; Textile composites; Unit cell analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED MESHING; EFFECTIVE PROPERTIES; HOMOGENIZATION; MESH REFINEMENT; PERIODIC MEDIA; TEXTILE COMPOSITES; UNIT-CELL-ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MEMBRANES; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MESH GENERATION; TEXTILE PROCESSING; TEXTILES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0344593291     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.594     Document Type: Article

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