Composite materials are being extensively used in aerospace and automotive industry. The
demand for composite materials is increasing due to their superior properties such as high …

Laminated glass is a simple sandwiched composite structure, while being widely used in the
automotive industry as windshield glazings. It is considered to be safety glass due to its …

Advanced Fibre-reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites for Structural Applications, Second
Edition provides updates on new research that has been carried out on the use of FRP …

A novel adaptive greedy-based generation (GBG) algorithm is proposed to generate 2D
random distribution of fibers for unidirectional composites. Inspired by greedy algorithm, the …

In the present report some basic issues of and some of the modeling strategies used for
studying static and quasistatic problems in continuum micromechanics of materials are …

Fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been widely used in different engineering
sectors due to their excellent physical and mechanical properties. Therefore, fast …

This paper reports a study of the initiation of the first failure event in unidirectional
composites subjected to transverse tension. Two energy based point failure criteria–critical …

Random and periodic representations of composite microstructures are inherently different
both in terms of the resultant range of stresses that each phase carries as well as the total …

Representative volume elements (RVEs) with random fiber distribution are widely used in
micro-mechanics for determining the properties of unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites …

This study presents a hybrid method based on artificial neural network (ANN) and micro-
mechanics for the failure prediction of IM7/8552 unidirectional (UD) composite lamina under …