... of both materials are presented, and the initial failure loads of both materials are compared. blades cantilevers failure (mechanical) fibre reinforced composites hydrodynamics plates (structures) turbines There is an increasing interest in the use of fiber-reinforced composite materials...

... moduli fibre reinforced composites finite element analysis fracture toughness microcracks Bone is a hierarchical material that has different structural components in various length scales. At the microstructural level, bone is similar to a fiber-reinforced composite material made up...

... loading history. 26 03 2007 29 08 2007 08 04 2008 bonding processes continuum mechanics elasticity fibre reinforced composites micromechanics continuum damage mechanics homogenization interfacial debonding cohesive zone element principal damage coordinate system...

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

... . 16 01 2006 07 03 2007 fibre reinforced composites brittle fracture bending strength cracks fracture mechanics ductility brittleness bridged crack brittle matrix composite repeated loading Independently of the matrix and fiber materials and in spite of different...

.... composites matrix failure fiber-matrix debonding interface crack kinked crack boundary element method fibre reinforced composites crack-edge stress field analysis kink bands boundary-elements methods Graphical description of the evolution of the angle of MCS with the semidebonding angle...

... caused by periodicity rather than the manner of load application investigated in the first problem. 18 12 2005 01 04 2006 fibre reinforced composites cracks elasticity multilayers deformation In Part I of this paper, an exact solution was presented to the plane elasticity...

... to estimate the strength of unidirectional fibre reinforced composites. Fibers and matrix are considered to be elastoplastic with very simple linear hardening laws defined for each direction. The stress in each component is expressed in terms of the global stress using a bridging matrix. Nevertheless...

... of the instabilities, and their dependence on micro-geometry and macroscopic loading conditions are presented and discussed. 09 02 2005 01 09 2005 failure (mechanical) periodic structures ductility honeycomb structures fibre reinforced composites buckling bifurcation elastic constants...

... problem may be useful for verifying the other approximate and numerical models of the smart functionally graded plates for which exact solutions cannot be derived. 15 03 2005 12 04 2005 functionally graded materials fibre reinforced composites piezoelectric materials Young's modulus...

... 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 thermomechanical treatment internal...

... 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 Sato , H. , and Shindo , Y...

... in an infinite plane in Ref. 17 . fibre reinforced composites inclusions elasticity boundary integral equations Young's modulus boundary-elements methods internal stresses domains 29 January 2004 22 May 2004 01 02 2005 The normalized Young’s moduli E eff...

... 2004 28 10 2004 fibre reinforced composites thin wall structures creep fracture mechanics stress analysis torsion creep testing crystal microstructure internal stresses tensile testing vectors Grobstein ( 1 ) observes anisotropic damage growth at the fiber/matrix interface...

... 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...

... of finite numbers of collocation points 4 5 6 . stress analysis inclusions fibre reinforced composites elastic constants integral equations 30 July 1999 16 Jan 2003 25 08 2003 Contributed by the Applied Mechanics Division of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL...

... 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 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 shells is developed. A cord...

... 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...

.... After going through their numerical examples shown in the paper, the present reader has a strong feeling that the accuracy and hence the efficiency of their models is suspect. fibre reinforced composites elastic moduli micromechanics 31 10 2002 ...