IUTAM Symposium on Microstructure-Property Interactions in Composite Materials -

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Sommaire:
Comments on a variational micro-macro model for random composites and the integration of microstructural data.- Correlation between fracture toughness and the microstructure morphology in transversely loaded unidirectional composites.- The quantitative microstructure-property correlations of composite and porous materials: an engineering tool for designing new materials.- Crack growth in a composite with well aligned long fibres.- Fiber arrangement effects on the microscale stresses of continuously reinforced MMCS.- Analytical/experimental study of interphase effects on composite compression strength.- The measurement and modelling of fibre directions in composites.- Transformation analysis of inelastic laminates.- Development of anisotropy in powder compaction.- Cracked laminates with imperfect interlaminar interface.- Numerical modelling of crack growth in material models of fibrous composites.- Analytical estimate of interaction among ellipsoidal inclusions: upper and lower bounds for strain energy due to interaction.- Effective moduli of concentrated particulate solids.- Micromechanical analysis of the viscoelastic behaviour of composites.- Construction of a stochastic macrofailure model of unidirectional fiber reinforced composites based on dynamic failure process simulations of microfailure models.- On impregnation quality and resulting mechanical properties of compression moulded commingled yarn based thermoplastic composites.- Morphology/Loading direction coupling on the transverse behaviour of composites.- Bounds for overall nonlinear elastic or viscoplastic properties of heterogeneous solids.- Anisotropic and inhomogeneous plastic flow of fibrous composites.- A FFT-based numerical method for computing the mechanical properties of composites from images of their microstructure.- Hysteretic effects and progressive delamination at composite interfaces.- Observation of internal damage and inelastic deformation of graphite/ epoxy laminate tubes under cyclic tension-compression.- Interaction between a main crack and inclusions at shear stress state.- Recent work on mesostructures and the mechanics of fiber composites.- Stiffness reduction in composite laminates due to transverse matrix cracks.- Discrete model of fracture in disordered two-phase materials.- Evolution concepts for microstructure-property interactions in composite systems.- Off-axis fatigue life prediction using microstress analysis.- Microstructure characterization and FE-modeling of plastic flow in a duplex steel.- Properties of two-dimensional materials containing inclusions of various shapes.- Reinforcement distribution effects on failure in particulate reinforced metals.- On the micromodelling of dynamic response for thermoelastic periodic composites.- Micromechanical modeling of effective electro-thermo-elastic properties of two-phase piezoelectric composites.- Microstructure evolution in ideally plastic composites.- Micromechanical modelling based on morphological analysis; application to viscoelasticity.- List of Participants.