The dynamic inelastic behavior in fiber reinforced composite materials

Abstract

Accurately simulating the complete dynamic behavior, elastic and inelastic, of engineering structures composed of fiber reinforced composite materials can be accomplished by integrating three components: (1) a physically based micromechanical material model that accounts for the experimentally observed mechanisms producing the inelastic behavior; (2) a dynamic three-dimensional continuum simulation capability in which the physically based micromechanical material model is incorporated; and (3) a complete set of robust dynamic experiments. These experiments are used (1) to establish the microstructural mechanisms that produce inelastic behavior and (2) to validate the dynamic simulation capability. This paper focuses on the implementation of a physically based micromechanical material model into an explicit 3D finite element code and shows the experimental comparison.