The purpose of aligning short fibers in a fiber-reinforced material is to improve the
mechanical properties of the resulting composite. Aligning the fibers, generally in a preferred …

A comprehensive study on the influence of planar fourth-order fiber orientation tensors on
effective linear elastic stiffnesses predicted by orientation averaging mean field …

Fiber orientation tensors represent averaged measures of fiber orientations inside a
microstructure. Although, orientation-dependent material models are commonly used to …

The following paper focuses on the development of a 3D virtual process chain (VPC) for
parts made from Carbon Fiber Sheet Molding Compounds (C-SMC). The VPC consists of …

In this article, we combine a Fast Fourier Transform based computational approach and a
supervised machine learning strategy to discover models for the anisotropic effective …

Fiber-reinforced polymers contribute significantly to weight-reducing components for various
industrial applications. A discontinuous glass fiber-reinforced thermoset resin is considered …

The paper focuses on the evaluation of the effective properties of linear viscoelastic
composites with a periodic structure, containing long cylindrical fibers of circular cross …

In order to determine fiber volume contents (FVC) of low contrast CT images of carbon fiber
reinforced polyamide 6, a novel thresholding method and a convolutional neural network …

To characterize the fiber–matrix interface of a glass-fiber reinforced sheet molding
compound (SMC), single-fiber push-out tests are performed and simulated numerically. The …

Understanding the effective viscosity of fiber-filled polymer melts is essential for predicting
the local fiber orientation of injection molded short-fiber reinforced components. To …