Interface stress distributions in transversely loaded continuous fiber composites: Parallel computation in multi-fiber RVEs using the boundary element method

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1101-1114

  Chen, Xiaoming ^a   Papathanasiou, T D ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Interface stress

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MICROSTRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

MATRIX STIFFNESS RATIO; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS (RVE); STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS;

EID: 2342434619     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2003.07.006     Document Type: Article

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