Abstract: Exact relationships are derived between instantaneous overall thermal stress or strain vectors and instantaneous overall mechanical stiffness or compliance, for two binary composite systems in which ...

Abstract: This paper presents a finite strain formulation of a plasticity theory of fibrous composite materials. An additive decomposition is adopted to describe the kinematics of large deformations; a ...

Abstract: Field Analysis (TFA) method (G. J. Dvorak, Proc. R. Soc. Lond., 1992, A437, pp. 311–327). Fiber prestress is applied in individual plies prior to matrix cure and released after matrix consolidation. Linear or nonlinear...

Abstract: In its original form, the Mori-Tanaka method estimates constant overall properties of statistically homogeneous composite materials subjected to uniform overall stresses, strain or temperature ...

Abstract: A new axisymmetric plasticity theory of fibrous composites which was developed by the authors is applied to problems involving large uniform thermal changes. The determination of loading surfaces ...

Abstract: The elastic-plastic behavior of a (0/90) symmetric FP-Al plate containing a circular hole is investigated using the finite-element method. Of principal concern are plastic yielding at the circular ...

Abstract: Elastic-plastic behavior of symmetric metal-matrix composite laminates is analyzed for the case of in-plane mechanical loading. The overall response of the laminate at each instant is derived ...

Abstract: The elastic-plastic behavior of composites consisting of aligned, continuous elastic filaments and an elastic-plastic matrix is described in terms of constituent properties, their volume fractions, ...