Multi-Scale Continuum Mechanics Modelling of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites (Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering)

Multi-scale Continuum Mechanics Modelling Of Fibre-reinforced Polymer Composites Provides A Comprehensive And State-of-the-art Review On The Application And Use Of Multiscale Modeling To Predict Damage Mechanisms In Composite Materials. Following A Logical Structure, The Book Is Divided Into Three Main Parts, Including The Ingredients” Necessary To Start Multi-scale Modeling, Nonlinear Multi-scale Modeling, And The Laminate Scale Or Macro-scale, Where All Multi-scale Modeling Tools Are Applied For The Virtual Testing Of Laminates (in Static Loading, But Also Sometimes For Prediction Of Fatigue And Crushing). As Mentioned Above, In All Three Parts, The Main Types Of Fiber Reinforcements Are Covered (unidirectionally Reinforced Composites, Textile Composites And Short Fiber Composites). The Book's Focus Is Always On Physically Sound Damage Modeling And Continuum Mechanics (no Attention To Special Discrete Methods Or Particle Methods). Comprehensive Overview On The Modeling On All Three Important Scales, Including Micro-scale, Meso-scale And Macro-scale Covers Not Only Unidirectionally Reinforced Composites, But Also Textile Composites, Short Fiber Composites, And The Geometrical Modeling Of Their Fiber Reinforcement Architecture Covers Finite-element Based Techniques (which Are Computationally Very Demanding), Analytical And Quasi-analytical Approaches (mean Field Homogenization, Variational Mechanics), And Techniques For Model Order Reduction