Multiscale Modelling of Damage and Fracture Processes in Composite Materials
This book explores damage growth and fracture processes in cementitious, ceramic, polymer and metal matrix composites, integrating properties like stiffness and strength with observation at below macroscopic scale. Advances in multiscale modelling and analysis pertain directly to materials which either have a range of relevant microstructural scales, like metals, or do not have a well-defined microstructure, like cementitious or ceramic composites.
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The work helps to understand the basic principles of damage growth and fracture processes in cementitious, ceramic, polymer and metal matrix composites. Nowadays, it is widely recognized that important macroscopic properties like the macroscopic stiffness and strength are governed by processes that occur at one to several scales below the level of macroscopic observation.Moreover, the microstructural and mesostructural levels are well-defined: the microstructural level can be associated with small particles or fibres, while the individual laminae can be identified at the mesoscopic level. For this reason, advances in multiscale modelling and analysis made here, pertain directly to classes of materials which either have a wider range of relevant microstructural scales, such as metals, or do not have a very well-defined microstructure, e.g. cementitious or ceramic composites.
Modelling of anisotropic behaviour in fibre and particle reinforced composite1Computational mechanics of failure in composites at multiple scales63Micromechanical modelling of strain hardening and tension softening in cementitious composites103Optimum composite laminates least prone to delamination under mechanical and thermal loads137Multiscale computational damage modelling of laminate composites171Damage models at material interfaces213Modelling of damage and fracture processes of ceramic matrix composites271
