[HTML][HTML] Micromechanics of spatially uniform heterogeneous media: A critical review and emerging approaches

MJ Pindera, H Khatam, AS Drago, Y Bansal - Composites Part B …, 2009 - Elsevier
Outside of the classical microstructural detail-free estimates of effective moduli,
micromechanical analyses of macroscopically uniform heterogeneous media may be …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of computational homogenization methods for the prediction of mechanical properties of additively manufactured metal parts

NG March, DR Gunasegaram, AB Murphy - Additive Manufacturing, 2023 - Elsevier
It is well known that the strongly location-dependent microstructures observed in metal parts
made using additive manufacturing (AM) processes differ from those found in components …

Thirty years of the finite volume method for solid mechanics

P Cardiff, I Demirdžić - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Since early publications in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the finite volume method has
been shown suitable for solid mechanics analyses. At present, there are several flavours of …

[HTML][HTML] Homogenization and localization of nanoporous composites-A critical review and new developments

Q Chen, G Wang, MJ Pindera - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanoporous materials find a wide range of applications spanning diverse disciplines. For
sufficiently small nanopores, surface effects must be accounted for in calculating …

Locally-exact homogenization theory for transversely isotropic unidirectional composites

G Wang, MJ Pindera - Mechanics Research Communications, 2016 - Elsevier
The locally-exact homogenization theory for unidirectional composites with square
periodicity and isotropic phases proposed by Drago and Pindera [18] is extended to …

Parametric finite-volume micromechanics of periodic materials with elastoplastic phases

H Khatam, MJ Pindera - International Journal of Plasticity, 2009 - Elsevier
The recently incorporated parametric map** capability into the finite-volume direct
averaging micromechanics (FVDAM) theory has produced a paradigm shift in the theory's …

[HTML][HTML] Finite-volume micromechanics of periodic materials: past, present and future

MAA Cavalcante, MJ Pindera, H Khatam - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
The finite-volume method is now a well-established tool in the numerical engineering
community for simulation of a wide range of problems in fluid and solid mechanics. Its …

[HTML][HTML] Homogenization of elastic–plastic periodic materials by FVDAM and FEM approaches–An assessment

MAA Cavalcante, H Khatam, MJ Pindera - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
The standard computational approach for the homogenization of elastic–plastic response of
periodic materials is the finite-element method. Amongst the emerging alternatives, the finite …

Challenge problems for the benchmarking of micromechanics analysis: Level I initial results

HM Sertse, J Goodsell, AJ Ritchey… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Because of composite materials' inherent heterogeneity, the field of micromechanics
provides essential tools for understanding and analyzing composite materials and …

Micro-mechanical damage simulation of filament-wound composite with various winding angle under multi-axial loading

Y Chang, Y Zhou, N Wang, K Lu, W Wen, Y Xu - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
With the application of Filament Wound Composites (FWC) in the market, the general model
for composites with different process parameters is urgently needed. In this paper, a …