Journal
MATERIALS
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma9070590
Keywords
polymer composites; Al/PTFE; finite-element simulation; microscale modelling; quasi-static compression
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11202028, 11472053]
- Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20121101110012]
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A novel numerical method at the microscale for studying the mechanical behavior of an aluminum-particle-reinforced polytetrafluoroethylene (Al/PTFE) composite is proposed and validated experimentally in this paper. Two types of 2D representative volume elements (RVEs), real microstructure-based and simulated microstructures, are established by following a series of image processing procedures and on a statistical basis considering the geometry and the distribution of particles and microvoids, respectively. Moreover, 3D finite element modelling based on the same statistical information as the 2D simulated microstructure models is conducted to show the efficiency and effectiveness of the 2D models. The results of all simulations and experiments indicate that real microstructure-based models and simulated microstructure models are efficient methods to predict elastic and plastic constants of particle-reinforced composites.
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