A numerical investigation of the effect of particle clustering on the mechanical properties of composites

By Javier Segurado, Carlos Gonz'alez, Javier Llorca. 2003

301 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/485ac11f1006561b34bc8f7abeb7a3d871189f13

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In Building and Construction

1. Javier Llorca
2. E. Totry
3. Carlos Gonz'alez
4. Jie Yang
5. Josep Costa
6. A. Turón
7. S. Kitipornchai
8. Mgd Marc Geers

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Carlos Gonz'alez
2. Javier Llorca
3. S. Kitipornchai
4. Jie Yang
5. Mgd Marc Geers
6. E. Totry
7. Helong Wu
8. V. Kouznetsova

In Mechanics of Materials

1. Jie Yang
2. S. Kitipornchai
3. Carlos Gonz'alez
4. Helong Wu
5. E. Totry
6. Javier Llorca
7. Mgd Marc Geers
8. V. Kouznetsova

Citations in the corpus

• Determination of the critical size of a statistical representative volume element (SRVE) for carbon reinforced polymers (2006, background): “The clustering or homogeneity of fibre (particle) distribution may affect strongly the damage behavior of a composite [42].”
• A review of predictive nonlinear theories for multiscale modeling of heterogeneous materials (2017, background): “However, reconstruction techniques that preserve higher order correlations result in optimally sized RUCs while reducing errors in estimates of overall macroscopic properties [2,181,203,204,210,211].”
• Processing of advanced Al/SiC particulate metal matrix composites under intensive shearing – A novel Rheo-process (2009, unknown): “However, the current processing methods often produce agglomerated particles in the ductile matrix and as a result they exhibit extremely low ductility [9,10].”
• Mechanical behavior of unidirectional fiber-reinforced polymers under transverse compression: Microscopic mechanisms and modeling (2007, background): “tn = (1− d)Kδn if δn > 0 tn = Kδn if δn ≤ 0 (12) ts = (1− d)Kδs”
• Failure locus of fiber-reinforced composites under transverse compression and out-of-plane shear (2008, methodology): “Previous analyses carried out under transverse compression [16] have shown that RVEs with 30 fibers provide results very close to those obtained with 70 fibers, and accuracy improves if the overall behavior is obtained by averaging the stress–strain curves computed with various fiber distributions [”
• Thermal buckling and postbuckling of functionally graded graphene nanocomposite plates (2017, background): “Existing studies revealed that the agglomeration or clustering of reinforcements has significant effects on the mechanical properties of composites [11, 12].”