TY - BOOK ID - 4804557 TI - Multiscale Modelling of Damage and Fracture Processes in Composite Materials PY - 2005 SN - 9783211381021 3211295585 9783211295588 3211381023 PB - Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Engineering. KW - Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials. KW - Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering. KW - Materials. KW - Ingénierie KW - Matériaux KW - Composite materials -- Fracture -- Mathematical models. KW - Composite materials -- Mechanical properties -- Mathematical models. KW - Fracture mechanics -- Mathematical models. KW - Multiscale modeling. KW - Composite materials KW - Fracture mechanics KW - Multiscale modeling KW - Chemical & Materials Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Materials Science KW - Applied Mathematics KW - Mathematical models KW - Fracture KW - Mechanical properties KW - Mathematical models. KW - Multi-scale modeling KW - Multiscale models KW - Composites (Materials) KW - Multiphase materials KW - Reinforced solids KW - Solids, Reinforced KW - Two phase materials KW - Computational intelligence. KW - Continuum mechanics. KW - Computational Intelligence. KW - Mechanics of continua KW - Elasticity KW - Mechanics, Analytic KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Intelligence, Computational KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Soft computing KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Multivariate analysis KW - Materials KW - Mechanics. KW - Mechanics, Applied. KW - Solid Mechanics. KW - Applied mechanics KW - Engineering, Mechanical KW - Engineering mathematics KW - Classical mechanics KW - Newtonian mechanics KW - Physics KW - Dynamics KW - Quantum theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4804557 AB - Various types of composites are used in engineering practice. The most important are fibrous compositesy laminates and materials with a more complicated geometry of reinforcement in the form of short fibres and particles of various properties^ shapes and sizes. The aim of course was to understand the basic principles of damage growth and fracture processes in 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 observation. Understanding how these processes infiuence the reduction of stiffness and strength is essential for the analysis of existing and the design of improved composite materials. The study of how these various length scales can be linked together or taken into account simultaneously is particular attractive for composite materials, since they have a well-defined structure at the micro and meso-levels. 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 indentified 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 range of relevant microstructural scales, such as metals, or do not have a very we- defined microstructure, e.g. cementitious composites. In particular, the fracture mechanics and optimization techniques for the design of polymer composite laminates against the delamination type of failure was discussed. ER -