...Michael R. Motley; Yin L. Young; Zhanke Liu In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the use of advanced composites in marine applications. It has been shown that by exploiting the inherent anisotropic nature of the material, fiber-reinforced composite structures can be tailored...

...Susan Mischinski; Ani Ural Bone is similar to fiber-reinforced composite materials made up of distinct phases such as osteons (fiber), interstitial bone (matrix), and cement lines (matrix-fiber interface). Microstructural features including osteons and cement lines are considered to play...

...Jayesh R. Jain; Somnath Ghosh This paper develops a microscopic homogenization based continuum damage mechanics (HCDM) model framework for fiber reinforced composites undergoing interfacial debonding. It is an advancement over the 2D HCDM model developed by Raghavan and Ghosh (2005, “A Continuum...

... e-mail: z-bazant@northwestern.edu 15 11 2005 07 02 2007 25 02 2008 laminates fibre reinforced composites brittleness fracture softening cracks fiber composites laminates spectral methods microplane model fracture energy crack band model damage failure...

... address the case of composites with very high number of reinforcements (i.e., fiber-reinforced composites, rather than conventionally reinforced concrete). With this aim, we propose a new iterative procedure and compare it to the algorithm recently proposed by Carpinteri, Spagnoli, and Vantadori (2004...

... generated in this paper and the evolution of the damage in an actual composite. 25 07 2005 27 09 2006 fibre reinforced composites crack-edge stress field analysis kink bands boundary-elements methods composites matrix failure fiber-matrix debonding interface crack kinked crack...

... impact on defect criticality of advanced multilayered structures when cracks are in close proximity to vertical and horizontal boundaries. fibre reinforced composites cracks elasticity multilayers deformation In Part I of this paper, an exact solution was presented to the plane elasticity...

...Bibiana M. Luccioni Nowadays, conventional materials have been progressively replaced by composite materials in a wide variety of applications. Particularly, fiber reinforced composite laminates are widely used. The appropriate design of elements made of this type of material requires the use...

...N. Triantafyllidis; M. D. Nestorović; M. W. Schraad For ductile solids with periodic microstructures (e.g., honeycombs, fiber-reinforced composites, cellular solids) which are loaded primarily in compression, their ultimate failure is related to the onset of a buckling mode. Consequently...

...M. C. Ray; H. M. Sachade This paper deals with the derivation of exact solutions for the static analysis of functionally graded (FG) plates integrated with a layer of piezoelectric fiber reinforced composite (PFRC) material. The layer of the PFRC material acts as the distributed actuator of the FG...

... 17, 2004. Associate Editor: S. Mukherjee. 17 October 2000 17 June 2004 15 03 2005 concrete aggregates (materials) fibre reinforced composites boundary-elements methods elastic waves shear modulus statistical analysis C α β * p , D α...

... response, SMA have been successfully adopted as actuators and sensors in a broad set of advanced and innovative applications in aeronautical, biomedical, mechanical, and civil engineering 2 . fibre reinforced composites shape memory effects martensitic transformations micromechanics...

...Y. J. Liu; N. Nishimura; Y. Otani; T. Takahashi; X. L. Chen; H. Munakata A new boundary element method (BEM) is developed for three-dimensional analysis of fiber-reinforced composites based on a rigid-inclusion model. Elasticity equations are solved in an elastic domain containing inclusions which...

... for fiber reinforced composites (MMC, PMC, etc.) that is consistent with the general features of Fig. 1 . The resulting model is an extension of Robinson et al. ( 7 8 ) and Binienda et al. ( 9 ). The earlier model accounts for an anisotropic rate of damage growth but, resting on a scalar state variable...

... Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070, and will be accepted until four months after final publication of the paper itself in the ASME JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS . 20 August 2002 28 April 2003 05 01 2004 elastic deformation fibre reinforced composites membranes actuators...

...N.-A. Noda; T. Genkai; Q. Wang In short fiber reinforced composite it is known that the singular stress at the end of fibers causes crack initiation, propagation, and final failure. The singular stress field is controlled by the generalized stress intensity factors defined at the end...

... after final publication in the paper itself in the ASME JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS . 15 Apr 1999 07 Aug 2002 11 06 2003 bending laminates differential equations elasticity fibre reinforced composites A theory for the bending of cord composite laminate cylindrical...

... of the paper itself in the ASME JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS . 20 Nov 2001 10 June 2002 11 06 2003 shape memory effects fibre reinforced composites vibrations finite element analysis intelligent structures laminates The use of different composite materials has been...

... in the ASME JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS . 30 Jan 2002 09 May 2002 23 01 2003 buckling shear modulus mechanical stability bifurcation elastic moduli variational techniques torsion structural engineering fibre reinforced composites During the 1960s, there used...

...R. Tanov; A. Tabiei, Associate Professor and Director 31 10 2002 fibre reinforced composites micromechanics elastic moduli It is with great embarrassment and humiliation that we write these lines. We, the authors of the above paper, do strongly believe that truth is born...