Micromechanical modeling of short-fiber reinforced composites

Download or read book Micromechanical modeling of short-fiber reinforced composites written by Mueller, Viktor and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is focused on the prediction of elastic behavior of short-fiber reinforced composites by mean-field homogenization methods, which account for experimentally determined and artificially constructed microstructure data in discrete and averaged form. The predictions are compared with experimental measurements and a full-field voxel-based approach. It is investigated, whether the second-order orientation tensor delivers a sufficient microstructure description for such predictions.