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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 143, Issue -, Pages 103-112Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2018.02.035
Keywords
Microstructural effects; Size effects; Fiber composite materials; Strain gradient elasticity; Boundary Element Method; ACA/BEM; Large scale elastic problems
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The present work aims to examine whether strain gradient elastic theory is able to capture both positive and negative size effects appearing in the bending of unidirectional fiber composite plates. To this goal, the deflections of fiber composite plates subjected to a bending loading under plane strain conditions are numerically evaluated and compared to the corresponding ones provided by the bending of the same plates homogenized as gradient elastic materials. All the plates have the same dimensions and fiber volume fraction, while the radius of the embedded fibers gradually changes. Plates with up to 2352 periodically and randomly distributed cylindrical elastic fibers, embedded in a matrix medium, has been considered. The fibers are either harder or softer than matrix medium while the case of cylindrical cavities is also considered. Each of the considered problems is solved numerically through a Boundary Element method (BEM) supported by Adaptive Cross Approximation (ACA) techniques so that to be able to solve large-scale problems involved in the present study. The obtained results are demonstrated and commented. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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