Direct simulations of fiber network deformation and failure

A Kulachenko, T Uesaka - Mechanics of Materials, 2012 - Elsevier
… Wet fiber network can find many … of deformation behavior of fiber network, without resorting
to coarse grain approximations. The fiber network on which we focus is a wet fiber network. …

Modeling the large deformation and microstructure evolution of nonwoven polymer fiber networks

M Zhang, Y Chen, F Chiang… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… distributed network microstructure deformation mechanism of the nonwoven fiber network.
The … of other complex nonwoven network systems, like carbon nanotube networks, biological …

Mechanics of random fiber networks—a review

RC Picu - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
… It should be also observed that advancing the understanding of the physics of deformation
of random fiber networks will provide insight into the mechanics of some types of glasses, …

[HTML][HTML] Structural effects on deformation and fracture of random fiber networks and consequences on continuum models

P Isaksson, R Hägglund - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2009 - Elsevier
fiber network model analyzed with the finite element method. Even though a planar RFN
is only an approximation of a paper structure, it is generally expected to explain the overall in-…

Effect of fiber orientation on the non-affine deformation of random fiber networks

H Hatami-Marbini, RC Picu - Acta mechanica, 2009 - Springer
… of fiber networks is essential in understanding the mechanical properties of many polymeric
and biological materials. These systems deform non-affinely, ie the local deformation is … fiber

Scaling of nonaffine deformation in random semiflexible fiber networks

H Hatami-Marbini, RC Picu - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and …, 2008 - APS
… In conclusion, the mechanics of random fiber networks is controlled by nonaffine deformation
on all scales; the nonaffinity scales as a power law with the scale of observation. Two …

Nonaffine deformation of semiflexible polymer and fiber networks

S Chen, T Markovich, FC MacKintosh - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
fiber networks that accounts for the nonaffine deformations. Our model applies to both
lattice-based and random offlattice networks … both thermal and athermal networks. Our prediction …

Filament-length-controlled elasticity in 3D fiber networks

CP Broedersz, M Sheinman, FC MacKintosh - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
… weight limit, we develop a 3D lattice-based fiber network model with binary crosslinks.
Our … on the deformation field and their implications for the mechanics of 3D fiber networks. …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical response of composite fiber networks subjected to local contractile deformation

H Hatami-Marbini, M Rohanifar - International Journal of Solids and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… The composite networks in this paper are in the form of an athermal random fiber network that
is … The random fiber network is created by a dilution procedure in which fiber segments are …

Elasticity of planar fiber networks

XF Wu, YA Dzenis - Journal of Applied Physics, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
… Under external in-plane loading, the FN deformation consists of fiber bending, … for fiber
network is developed by averaging the strain energy dissipated by all possible fiber deformations