Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Material, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

The mechanical property prediction of fibre-reinforced composite materials based on a new generating random fibre distributions method

Authors
Heyuan Huang, Meiying Zhao, Yonghui Dai, Yonghui Wang
Corresponding Author
Heyuan Huang
Available Online August 2015.
DOI
10.2991/ic3me-15.2015.99How to use a DOI?
Keywords
represent volume element (RVE), fibre distributions, image processing, statistical description, composite, elastic properties prediction.
Abstract

This paper focuses on the issues of the fibre-reinforced composite material microstructure and presents a new numerical method to generate random fibre distributions and predict the macroscopic mechanical properties of composite materials based on the represent volume element (RVE). The method, named the random sequence generation algorithm (RSGA), obtains fibre radius distributions and positional relationships by image processing to generate a statistical equivalence RVE effectively. On this basis, the composite material microstructure finite element model is established to predict its macroscopic elastic properties by Python language in ABAQUS. Comparative analysis shows the algorithm is in good agreement with experimental results and has the statistical equivalence herein. The research of this paper on the algorithm for composite materials of fibre distributions provides a useful alternative to generate random numerical models that can be used in micromechanical analysis of composite materials.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Material, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
August 2015
ISBN
10.2991/ic3me-15.2015.99
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/ic3me-15.2015.99How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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