Multi-Scale Simulation of Viscoelastic Fiber-Reinforced Composites

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  • S. Staub
  • H. Andrä
  • M. Kabel
  • T. Zangmeister

Abstract

This paper presents an effective algorithm to simulate the anisotropic viscoelastic behavior of a fiber-reinforced composite including the influence of the local geometric properties, like fiber-orientation and volume fraction. The considered composites consist of a viscoelastic matrix which is reinforced by elastic fibers. The viscoelastic composite behavior results anisotropic due to the local anisotropic fiber-orientations. The influence of the local time-dependent viscoelastic properties are captured within two elastic microscopic calculations for each fiberorientation in the composite part. These calculations can be performed within a preprocessing step, and thus no expensive, time-dependent viscoelastic multi-scale simulation has to be carried out to incorporate the local properties. The advantage of the presented approach is that the locally varying microscopic properties can be captured in a one-scale simulation within a commercial finite element tool like ABAQUS.

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2019-06-25

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Staub, S. (2019) “Multi-Scale Simulation of Viscoelastic Fiber-Reinforced Composites”, Technische Mechanik - European Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 32(1), pp. 70–83. Available at: https://journals.ub.ovgu.de/index.php/techmech/article/view/681 (Accessed: 21 November 2024).

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