Abstract
Injection molded discontinuous fiber reinforced components are widely used in many demanding engineering applications and are exposed to a complex combination of thermo-mechanical loads. Mean field homogenization approach was successfully applied for predicting the global stiffness behavior over wide part geometry complexity, fiber orientation distribution (FOD) and loading situations including loading rate and temperature dependence. The prediction of the component strength, however, is significantly more complicated and requires additional and theoretical considerations as well as the application of various numerical tools and sophisticated experiments. To overcome above difficulties the MFH technique was extended with the first pseudo grain failure or damage (FPGF or FPGD) approach proposed by the research group of Doghri [1] elaborated in detail using short glass fiber reinforced PP-GF in the PhD Thesis of Reiter [2] and shortly described in this study.
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