Abstract Paper has always been of great importance as a printing and packaging material. Due to its potential for recyclability reusability, which result in low environmental impact, it is expected that this will soar over the coming years. Nevertheless, even though paper use decades, many research questions are still open, especially field mechanics. One these appropriate size representative v...

This paper presents the development of a Representative Volume Element (RVE) for Ultra-high-Molecular-Weight-Polyethylene (UHMWPE) composites. The numerical models were based on fibrillar nature UHMWPE fibres, which consist smaller scale, continuous through-the-length macro-fibrils. A three-dimensional constitutive model macro-fibrils was developed and implemented in LS-DYNA explicit finite ele...