Numerical simulation on tensile failure of discontinuous fiber-reinforced plastics

27th Annual Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites 2012, Held Jointly with 15th Joint US-Japan Conference on Composite Materials and ASTM-D30 Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1470-1486

  Sasayama, T ^a   Okabe, T ^a   Koyanagi, J ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LENGTH; FIBER-REINFORCED; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HIGH STRESS CONCENTRATION; IDEAL STRENGTH; LONG FIBER; MICROMECHANICAL DAMAGE; PEAK STRESS; SHEAR-LAG MODEL; SIMULATED RESULTS; TENSILE FAILURES; THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE; TRANSITION LENGTH; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH;

CARBON FIBERS; CONTINUUM DAMAGE MECHANICS; EXPERIMENTS; FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; REINFORCED PLASTICS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMOPLASTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84874487741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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