Numerical modelling of flax short fibre reinforced and flax fibre fabric reinforced polymer composites

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 89, Issue , 2016, Pages 143-154

  Sliseris, Janis ^a   Yan, Libo ^b,c   Kasal, Bohumil ^b,c  

^a RIGA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c Wilhelm Klauditz Institut (WKI)   (Germany)

Author keywords

A. Discontinuous reinforcement; A. Polymer matrix composites (PMCs); C. Finite element analysis (FEA)

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CONTINUUM DAMAGE MECHANICS; DEFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLAX; LINEN; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; POLYPROPYLENES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; REINFORCEMENT; YARN;

4-NODE FINITE ELEMENTS; DISCONTINUOUS REINFORCEMENT; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FIBRE/MATRIX INTERFACES; ISOTROPIC HARDENINGS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES (PMCS); REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES; TENSILE STRESS STRAIN;

FIBERS;

EID: 84951199360     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2015.11.038     Document Type: Article

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