Representative volume elements for discontinuous carbon fibre composites - Part 2: Determining the critical size

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 204-210

  Harper, L T ^a   Qian, C ^a   Turner, T A ^a   Li, S ^a   Warrior, N A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. Carbon fibres; A. Short fibre composites; C. Finite element analysis; Representative volume element

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CARBON FIBRE COMPOSITES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CRITICAL SIZE; EDGE LENGTH; EMBEDDED CELLS; FIBRE LENGTH; FIBRE VOLUME FRACTION; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; POISSON'S RATIO; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; SHORT FIBRE COMPOSITES; SIZE EFFECTS; STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE; STATISTICAL SIZE EFFECT;

CARBON FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SIZE DETERMINATION; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

FIBERS;

EID: 84855826937     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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