A combined experimental and simulation approach for modelling the mechanical behaviour of heterogeneous materials using rapid prototyped microcells: A novel two-component rapid prototyping system was used to produce real 3D microcell models for various heterogeneous polymer compounds.

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-120

  Reiter, Martin ^a   Major, Zoltan ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Finite element simulation; Full field strain analysis; Hypereleastic models; Microcell design; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TOOLS; DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR; DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATIONS; ELASTIC-PLASTIC; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FULL-FIELD; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; HETEROGENEOUS POLYMERS; HYPER ELASTIC; HYPERELASTIC MATERIALS; HYPERELEASTIC MODELS; LARGE-SCALE DEFORMATION; LOCAL SCALE; LOCAL STRAINS; MATERIAL MICROSTRUCTURES; MATERIAL MODELS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MATRIX; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MICRO CELL; MICROSTRUCTURE SIMULATIONS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTIMISATIONS; ORIENTED PARTICLES; RAPID PROTOTYPING SYSTEMS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; SIMULATION APPROACH; SPECIMEN SURFACES; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; TEST SPECIMENS; TWO-COMPONENT;

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATERIALS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROMECHANICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; POLYMERS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79960735426     PISSN: 17452759     EISSN: 17452767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2011.586949     Document Type: Article

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