Micromechanical FE analysis of UD fibre-reinforced composites with fibres distributed at random over the transverse cross-section

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1246-1266

  Wongsto, A ^a   Li, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Micromechanical FE analysis

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASTICS;

FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES; MICROMECHANICAL FE ANALYSIS; PLASTIC REGIMES; TRANSVERSE PLANE;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 22344455183     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2005.01.010     Document Type: Article

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