Abstract: This paper examines upper and lower bounds of the effective elastic modulus of unidirectional short-fiber composites. The short-fibers are modeled by aligned ellipsoidal inclusions of the same ...

Abstract: This paper examines the load redistribution in a hybrid composite sheet due to fiber breakage. The hybrid composite contains both high modulus and low modulus fibers arranged in alternating ...

Abstract: This paper examines an important aspect of the hygrothermal effect in fiber composite materials, the deformation induced by matrix shrinkage. The physical problem is simulated by prescribing a ...

Abstract: The solution for a point force applied at the interior of an infinite transversely isotropic solid is obtained by introducing three potential functions which govern the displacements. Unlike ...

Abstract: This paper examines the effective longitudinal Young’s modulus of composites containing misoriented short fibers. The analysis is based on the Eshelby’s equivalent inclusion method and the average ...

Abstract: The first-order perturbation analysis of the three-dimensional transient interlaminar thermal stresses of a symmetric composite laminate has been performed in this paper. Numerical results for a ...

Abstract: Closed-form solutions are obtained for the Green’s function problems of point forces applied in the interior of a two-phase material consisting of two semi-infinite transversely isotropic elastic ...