Effects of fiber arrangement on mechanical behavior of unidirectional composites

Journal of Composite Materials

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 1851-1871

  Huang, Yuanchen ^a   Jin, Kyo Kook ^a   Ha, Sung Kyu ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hexagonal array; Random fiber array; Representative volume element (RVE); Square array; Statistics; Unidirectional composites.; Unit cell

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRESSES; TRACTION (FRICTION); VOLUME MEASUREMENT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; FIBER ARRANGEMENT; FIBER ARRAYS; FIBER DISTRIBUTION; FIBER-MATRIX INTERFACES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HEXAGONAL ARRAY; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; LOADING CONDITIONS; LOADING TYPES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIORS; MICRO-MECHANICAL; MICRO-MECHANICAL MODELING; RANDOM ARRAYS; RANDOM FIBER ARRAY; REGULAR ARRAYS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENT (RVE); REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; SQUARE ARRAY; STATISTICS; STRESS INVARIANTS; TRANSVERSE STRENGTH; UNIDIRECTIONAL COMPOSITES.; UNIT CELL; UNIT CELL MODELS; UNIT CELLS; WEIBULL;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 49649118504     PISSN: 00219983     EISSN: 1530793X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021998308093910     Document Type: Article

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