A bottom‐up, multiscale modeling approach is presented to carry out high‐fidelity virtual
mechanical tests of composite materials and structures. The strategy begins with the in situ …

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 …

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

The effect of fiber, matrix and interface properties on the in-plane shear response of carbon-
fiber reinforced epoxy laminates was studied by means of a combination of experiments and …

This paper reviews the current state of the art in the simulation of the mechanical behavior of
polycrystalline materials by means of computational homogenization. The key ingredients of …

The present article provides a review on the nonlinear mechanical behavior of polymer
matrix composites (PMCs). Initially, essential mechanisms driving the nonlinear response of …

The mechanical behavior, with particular emphasis on the damage mechanisms, of SiCp/Al
composites was studied by both experiments and finite element analysis in this paper. A 3D …

The effect of the reinforcement spatial distribution on the tensile deformation was
investigated in a sphere-reinforced ductile-matrix composite through the finite element …

The failure locus a fiber-reinforced composite lamina, made up of 50vol.% of carbon fibers
embedded in an epoxy matrix, is computed under transverse compression and out-of-plane …

It was a cold January morning in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1991. I was visiting the ALCOA
Technical Center to present a seminar in their Materials and Manufacturing Division. After …