Technique of Numerical Simulation for Composite Materials

Numerical Simulation of Wave Overtopping Over Composite Berm Breakwater

Breakwaters have changed a lot during their design history. Overtopping is an important parameter that its evaluation and reduction has always been noticed. In this study, the wave overtopping of composite berm breakwater as a new conceptual structure has been investigated numerical modeling was performed using FLOW-3D software. Then, based on  a laboratory model conducted by Losada et al, cali...

Numerical testing of homogenization formulas efficiency for magnetic composite materials

Magnetic composite materials are used for multiple applications. The macroscopic behavior of the material is influenced by its microscopic properties. Sometimes it is difficult to model the complex structure of the composite because the properties differ at the microscopic scale. Some simplifying assumptions are often needed, one of them being the homogenization of the material. In this paper t...

A petrographic thin sectioning technique for evaluating composite materials

The development of tough high-peformance composites often employs a variety of analytical methods that correlate morphological, yield and fracture characteristics to the corresponding properties of a composite. Most of these techniques can be severely limited due to the high concentration of fibres used in high performance composites (nominally 60 wt %). Several light microscopy techniques can ...

Numerical computation of the effective properties of smart composite materials

The design of composite materials requires microstructurally based computational approaches to optimize the shape and the spatial arrangement of the constituents with respect to a sought-after effective property. This topic remains widely opened especially in the case of heterogeneous media which exhibit multifi eld couplings in their constitutive relations. Up to now, the numerical homogenizat...

Numerical framework for mesoscale simulation of heterogeneous energetic materials