Modeling of constitutive behavior of anisotropic composite material using multi-scale approach

Abstract

The paper is focused on determining the elastic-plastic behavior of anisotropic composite materials. One of the main goals of this study is to compute effective material properties by analyzing material behavior at microstructure level. The effective material properties were investigated with the use of homogenization procedure connected with volume averaging of stress and strain values in RVE (Representative Volume Element). Three dimensional RVE geometry that represents material microstructure is taken into consideration. The spatial distribution of the particles is determined with experimental data. A boundary value problem is solved by using the finite element method and enforcing periodic boundary conditions. In addition, another approaches based on two step homogenization method and orientation averaging procedure are proposed. Results obtained numerically by using different approaches are presented, compared and related to the experimental results.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.mech.21.2.10276