Multi-inclusion unit cell studies of reinforcement stresses and particle failure in discontinuously reinforced ductile matrix composites

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-20

  Bohm H J ^a   Han, W ^a,b   Eckschlager, A ^a,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Industrie und Gewerbepark   (Switzerland)

^c Neusiedler AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Continuum micromechanics; MMCs; Particle cleavage; Unit cells

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REINFORCEMENT; STRESS ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; BRITTLE FRACTURE; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEAN FIELD THEORY; REINFORCED PLASTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONTINUUM MICROMECHANICS; MMC; PARTICLE CLEAVAGE; UNIT CELLS;

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; PARTICLE REINFORCED COMPOSITES;

BRITTLE CLEAVAGE; CONTINUUM MICROMECHANICS; DUCTILE MATRIX; ELASTO-PLASTIC; FRACTURE CRITERIA; MEAN FIELD MODELS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MICRO-SCALES; MICROMECHANICAL MODEL; MMCS; MULTI-INCLUSION UNIT CELLS; PARTICLE FRACTURE; PARTICLE REINFORCED; PROBABILISTIC ALGORITHM; SHORT FIBER; STRESS AND STRAIN; UNIAXIAL TENSILE LOADING; UNIT CELLS; WEIBULL;

EID: 4544379937     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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