A variational asymptotic micromechanics model has been developed for predicting effective thermoelastic properties of composite materials, and recover the local fields within the unit cell. This theory adopts essential assumptions within the concept of micromechanics, achieves an excellent accuracy, and provides a unified treatment for 1D, 2D, and 3D unit cells. This theory is implemented using...

carbon nanotube (cnt), due to extraordinary mechanical properties, is an effective stiffener as reinforcement in resin for fabricating of nanocomposites. it is demonstrated by adding a small amount of cnt to the matrix, the elastic modulus of matrix increases remarkably. in this paper, the elastic modulus of cnt reinforced nanocomposites is obtained two-dimensionally using a finite element meth...

A review of modeling techniques for predicting the mechanical behavior of polymer nanocomposites is presented. A detailed discussion of Computational Chemistry and Computational Mechanics modeling techniques is given. The specific molecular-based and continuumbased modeling approaches are described in terms of assumptions and theory. The approaches discussed are Ab initio simulations, Molecular...

A mesh objective crack band model is implemented in the generalized method of cells (GMC) micromechanics model to predict failure of a composite repeating unit cell (RUC). The micromechanics calculations are achieved using the MAC/GMC core engine within the ImMAC suite of micromechanics codes, developed at the NASA Glenn Research Center. The microscale RUC is linked to a macroscale Abaqus/Stand...

This paper presents an overview of micromechanics analysis of piezoelectric composites. Developments in micromechanics algorithms, finite element, and boundary element formulation for predicting effective material properties of piezoelectric composites are described. Finally, a brief summary of the approaches discussed is provided and future trends in this field are identified.

Novel subject-specific high-order finite element models of the human femur based on computer tomographic (CT) data are discussed with material properties determined by two different methods, empirically based and micromechanics based, both being determined from CT scans. The finite element (FE) results are validated through strain measurements on a femur harvested from a 54-year-old female. To ...

The in-plane thermo-elastic behaviour of woven fabric reinforced composites is analysed using a combination of published micromechanics and finite element techniques. The repetitive unit of an arbitrary woven fabric composite is divided into elements of which the thermo-elastic properties are determined using micromechanics. The properties of the repetitive unit are obtained using the finite el...

A stochastic finite element method for analysis of effects of spatial variability of material properties is developed with the help of a micromechanics approach. The method is illustrated by evaluating the first and second moments of the global response of a membrane with microstructure of a spatially random inclusionmatrix composite under a deterministic uniformly distributed load. It is shown...

A multiphysics micromechanics model is developed to predict the effective properties as well as the local fields of periodic smart materials responsive to fully coupled electric, magnetic, thermal and mechanical fields. This work is based on the framework of the variational asymptotic method for unit cell homogenization (VAMUCH), a recently developed micromechanics modeling scheme. To treat the...