Since the beginning of the industrial age, material performance and design have been in the
midst of innovation of many disruptive technologies. Today's electronics, space, medical …

This review paper summarizes the current state-of-art and challenges for the future
developments of fiber-reinforced composites for structural applications with multifunctional …

Hard magnetorheological elastomers (h-MREs) are essentially two phase composites
comprising permanently magnetizable metallic inclusions suspended in a soft elastomeric …

Various multiscale methods are reviewed in the context of modelling mechanical and
thermomechanical responses of composites. They are developed both at the material level …

Abstract Qualification of Fiber Reinforced Polymer materials (FRP's) for manufacturing of
structural components in the aerospace industry is usually associated with extensive and …

In this, its second corrected printing, Zohdi and Wriggers' illuminating text presents a
comprehensive introduction to the subject. The authors include in their scope basic …

The mechanical behavior of polymer–matrix composites unidirectionally reinforced with
carbon or glass fibers subjected to compression perpendicular to the fibers was studied …

The objective of this contribution is to present a unifying review on strain-driven
computational homogenization at finite strains, thereby elaborating on computational …

Material modeling using modern numerical methods accelerates the design process and
reduces the costs of developing new products. However, for multiscale modeling of …

In metal matrix composites, a metal is combined with another, often nonmetallic, phase to
produce a novel material having attractive engineering attributes of its own. A subject of …