Generalized plane deformations of ideal fiber-reinforced materials

Generalized Plane Deformations of Ideal Fiber - Reinforced Materials

Fiber reinforced plastic composites using recycled materials

This work investigates the feasibility of using recycled high density polyethylene (rHDPE), recycled polypropylene (rPP) and old newsprint fiber (ONP) to manufacture fiber reinforced composites. The boards were made through air-forming and hot press. The effects of the fiber loading and coupling agent content on tensile, flexural, internal bond properties and water absorption and thickness swel...

Finite Plane Strain Deformations of Rubberlike Materials

A finite element program capable of analysing finite plane strain deformations of incompressible rubberlike (Mooney-Rivlin) materials has been develop~d. Two problems, namely a long wall loaded uniformly in two directions and a thick-wall cylindrical pressure vessel loaded internally, have been solved. The computed values of displacements, strains, stresses and hydrostatic pressure agree very c...

Durable Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete with Supplimentary Cementitious Materials

Durability of concrete structure in marine environments is a big issue for many decades due to chloride attack. Chloride penetrates the concrete structure and accelerates the corrosion process of reinforcement which decreases the life of those structures. Also shrinkage cracks in concrete play main role for chloride penetration through concrete surface.  Many researchers tried to find easy and ...

Optimizing fiber orientation in fiber-reinforced materials using efficient upscaling

We present an efficient algorithm to find an optimal fiber orientation in composite materials. Within a two-scale setting fiber orientation is regarded as a function in space on the macrolevel. The optimization problem is formulated within a function space setting which makes the imposition of smoothness requirements straightforward and allows for rather general convex objective functionals. We...