A critical review of numerical methods for the simulation of pultruded fiber-reinforced structural elements

A Fascetti, L Feo, H Abbaszadeh - Composite Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Pultruded Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (FRP) are innovative structural elements that
are experiencing a steady increase in use for different structural applications. Due to their …

Machine Learning in Computer Aided Engineering

FJ Montáns, E Cueto, KJ Bathe - Machine Learning in Modeling and …, 2023 - Springer
The extraordinary success of Machine Learning (ML) in many complex heuristic fields has
promoted its introduction in more analytical engineering fields, improving or substituting …

Multiscale image-based modelling of damage and fracture in carbon fibre reinforced polymer composites

RM Sencu, Z Yang, YC Wang, PJ Withers… - Composites Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper is the first to predict and then validate the overall stress-strain curve and the
damage sequence comprising matrix cracking, interface debonding and fibre fracture …

Efficient non-iterative modelling of pressure-dependent plasticity using paraboloidal yield criterion

V Laheri, P Hao, FA Gilabert - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
A full understanding of the non-linear mechanical response of the polymer is essential for
fibre-reinforced polymer composite design because an explicit definition of constitutive …

Curvature changes and weight loss of polymeric nano-composite plates with consideration of the thermal cycle fatigue effects and different resin types: An …

A Tabatabaeian, AR Ghasemi - Mechanics of Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
The cured shape of nano-composite laminates is one of the most important issues in
structural engineering studies due to the direct effects of the curvature on the residual …

Numerical implementation, comparison and validation of a pressure dependent model for polymer composites

K Xu, W Chen, L Liu, Z Zhao, G Luo - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2021 - Elsevier
A pressure-dependent elastoplastic damage constitutive model for polymer composites is
established, in which the Implicit and Explicit numerical algorithm has been implemented in …

An improved orthotropic elasto-plastic damage model for plain woven composites

M Gupta, H Singh, AN Khan, P Mahajan… - Thin-Walled …, 2021 - Elsevier
A ply based non-linear material constitutive model for plain woven (PW) composite, with
provision to decouple the effect of plasticity and progressive damage as observed in …

Bridging micro-to-macro scale damage in UD-FRP laminates under tensile loading

NK Parambil, S Gururaja - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
A unified numerical framework for progressive damage analysis of a unidirectional fiber
reinforced plastic (UD-FRP) laminate has been developed by explicitly accounting for …

A novel second-order reduced homogenization approach for nonlinear thermo-mechanical problems of axisymmetric structures with periodic micro-configurations

Z Yang, Y Liu, Y Sun, Y Jing, Q Ma - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
A novel second-order reduced homogenization (SORH) approach is introduced for
analyzing dynamic thermo-mechanical coupling problems in axisymmetric inelastic …

Non-linear material characterization and numerical modeling of cross-ply basalt/epoxy laminate under low velocity impact

M Gupta, RTD Prabhakaran, P Mahajan - Polymer Testing, 2020 - Elsevier
The low velocity impact behavior of basalt/epoxy composites, seen as an eco-friendly
replacement of glass-epoxy composites, has not been studied systematically so far. Here …