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[en] This paper presents an incremental-secant mean- field homogenization (MFH) procedure for composites made of elasto-plastic constituents exhibiting damage. During the damaging process of one phase, the proposed method can account for the resulting unloading of the other phase, ensuring an accurate prediction of the scheme. When strain softening of materials is involved, classical fi nite element formulations lose solution uniqueness and face the strain
localization problem. To avoid this issue the model is formulated in a so-called implicit gradient-enhanced approach, with a view toward macro-scale simulations. The method is then used to predict the behavior of composites whose matrix phases exhibit strain softening, and is shown to be accurate compared to unit cell simulations and experimental results. Then the convergence of the method upon strain softening, with respect to the mesh size, is demonstrated on a notched composite ply. Finally, applications consisting in a stacking plate, successively without and with a hole, are given as illustrations of the possibility of the method to be used in a multiscale framework.
FP7 - 235303 - MATERA+ - ERA-NET Plus on Materials Research
Name of the research project :
SIMUCOMP The research has been funded by the Walloon Region under the agreement no 1017232 (CT-EUC 2010-10-12) in the context of the ERA-NET +, Matera + framework.
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Service public de Wallonie : Direction générale opérationnelle de l'économie, de l'emploi et de la recherche - DG06 CE - Commission Européenne
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