Permeability Computation on a Representative Volume Element (RVE) of Unidirectional Disordered Fiber Arrays

Effect of Carbon Nanotube Geometries on Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposite Via Nanoscale Representative Volume Element

Predicting the effective elastic properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced nanocomposites is of great interest to many structural designers and engineers for improving material and configuration design in recent years. In this paper, a finite element model of a CNT composite has been developed using the Representative volume element (RVE) to evaluate the effective material properties of nanocomp...

Finite element analysis of 2-D representative volume element

3D Representative Volume Element Reconstruction of Fiber Composites via Orientation Tensor and Substructure Features

To provide a seamless integration of manufacturing processing simulation and fiber microstructure modeling, two new stochastic 3D microstructure reconstruction methods are proposed for two types of random fiber composites: random short fiber composites, and Sheet Molding Compounds (SMC) chopped fiber composites. A Random Sequential Adsorption (RSA) algorithm is first developed to embed statisti...

Unidirectional all-fiber thulium-doped laser based on theta cavity and fiber Bragg grating as filtering element

We present first all-fiber unidirectional ring thulium-doped laser, based on isolator-free theta cavity configuration and fiber Bragg mirror as filtering element. Laser provides 1W output power with 30% slope efficiency, and linewidth of about 0.2nm. OCIS codes: (060.3510) Lasers, fiber; (060.2390) Fiber optics, infrared; (160.5690) Rare-earth-doped materials

Influence of representative volume element size on predicted elastic properties of polymer materials

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and micromechanical modeling are used to predict the bulk-level Young’s modulus of polycarbonate and polyimide polymer systems as a function of representative volume element (RVE) size and force field type. The bulk-level moduli are determined using the predicted moduli of individual finite-sized RVEs (microstates) using a simple averaging scheme and an energ...