Automated modeling of random inclusion composites

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 609-625

  Bailakanavar, M ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Fish, J ^a   Zheng, Y ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Multiscale Design System   (United States)

Author keywords

Chopped fibers; Composite materials; Homogenization; Packing algorithms; Random sequential adsorption; Spheroids

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CELLS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CYTOLOGY; FIBERS; HEAT SHIELDING; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; INCLUSIONS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

AMORPHOUS MATRICES; AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; FIBER VOLUME FRACTIONS; PACKING ALGORITHMS; PARAMETRIC MODELING; RANDOM SEQUENTIAL ADSORPTION; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SPHEROIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84871157435     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: 14355663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-012-0310-x     Document Type: Article

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