Journal
COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Volume 278, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2021.114559
Keywords
Granular micromechanics approach; Structural elements; Functionally graded structures; Granular composites; Damage mechanics; Particle-binder composites
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- Purdue University's startup funds
- Sectorplan Techniek, Netherlands
- U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-15-1-0102]
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This study presents constitutive laws of structural members using granular micromechanics approach, deriving macroscopic behavior by investigating average behavior of grain-pair interactions. Closed-form solutions for constitutive relationship of uniform and functionally graded materials are derived, demonstrating versatility and computational efficiency of the proposed approach. Analyzing structural members made of particle-binder composites reveals interesting one-way and two-way coupling behavior between internal forces and moments that cannot be achieved through closed-form solutions.
We present constitutive laws of structural members, such as beams, plates and shells, using the granular micromechanics approach. These relationships between internal resultants (i.e., internal forces and moments) and kinematic variables (i.e., strains and curvatures) depend solely on the microstructural properties of the constituents and the structure geometry. The macroscopic behavior is derived by investigating the average behavior of grain-pair interactions in all generic directions and, thus, automatically represent complex loading-induced and path-dependent anisotropic responses. We specifically derive closed-form solutions for the constitutive relationship of structural members made of both uniform and functionally graded materials, as functions of grain-scale parameters. Furthermore, we demonstrate the versatility and computational efficiency of the proposed approach, as well as its applicability to nonlinear material systems not amenable to closed-form solutions, by studying structural members made of particle-binder composites that exhibit failure-to-damage deformation mechanisms. These analytical and numerical solutions reveal interesting one-way and two-way coupling behavior between internal forces and moments.
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