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The mechanics of fiber-reinforced composite materials is presented within the framework of the second strain gradient theory. As such, a continuum-based model is developed for the analysis of elastic materials reinforced with bidirectional fibers and subjected to finite plane deformations. The obtained model is subsequently applied to the cases of the unidirectional fiber composites for the purpose of model implementation. The Euler equilibrium equations and the associated boundary conditions are obtained via the variational principle and iterative integration by parts. In particular, we formulate the complete expressions of Piola-type triple stress and its coupled triple force arising in the third gradient of continuum deformations, which, in turn, yield the unique deformation maps in the presence of admissible boundary conditions of higher order. The solutions of the resulting systems of differential equations are obtained via the custom-built numerical scheme from which smooth and dilatational shear angle distributions are predicted throughout the entire domain of interest. It is also observed that the third gradient constitutive parameter is associated with the volume dilatation of third-gradient continua, which may be appeared in the form of shear band inclination angle.
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This work was supported by the Chung-Ang University Research Grants in 2022 and the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada via Grant #RGPIN 04742. Kim would like to thank Dr. David Steigmann for stimulating his interest in this subject and for discussions concerning the underlying theory.
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Appendix: Finite element analysis of the sixth-order coupled PDE
Appendix: Finite element analysis of the sixth-order coupled PDE
The resulting systems of PDEs (Eqs. 87–89) are sixth-order coupled nonlinear differential equations. Demonstrating numerical analysis approaches for coupled PDE systems, especially those with higher order terms, is not trivial. For preprocessing, (Eqs. 87–89) can be recast as:
where \(A=p_{,1},\) \(B=p_{,2},\) \(Q=\chi _{1,11},\) \(R=\chi _{2,11},\) \(C=\chi _{1,1},\) \(D=\chi _{2,1},\) \(G=\chi _{1,2},\) \(S=\chi _{2,2},\) \(M=Q_{,11}\) and \( N=R_{,11}.\) As a result, we were able to reduce a sixth-order partial differential coupled system of equations to a second-order system of coupled PDEs. The above nonlinear terms (i.e., \(A\chi _{2,2},B\chi _{2,1}\) etc.) can be treated via the Picard iterative procedure,
where the values of A, B, C, D, G, S, Q, and R continue to be refreshed based on their previous estimations (i.e., \( A_{0},B_{0},C_{0},D_{0},G_{0},S_{0},Q_{0}\) and \(R_{0}\)) as iteration progresses. As a result, the above expression can be generalized to N number of iterations as
A convergence criteria can be used to determine the number of iterations. Thus, the weak form of Eq. (104) is obtained by
Using integration by parts and Green–Stoke’s theorem (e.g., \(\int _{\Omega ^{e}}w_{1}\chi _{1,11}\textrm{d}\Omega =\int _{\partial \Gamma ^{e}}\left( w_{1}\chi _{1,1}\right) N\textrm{d}\Gamma -\int _{\Omega ^{e}}w_{1,1}\chi _{1,1}\textrm{d}\Omega \)). We obtain from the above that
where \(\Omega \), \(\partial \Gamma \) and \(\textbf{N}\) are the domain of interest, the associated boundary, and the rightward unit normal to the boundary in the sense of the Green–Stoke’s theorem respectively. The unknowns \(\chi _{1},\) \(\chi _{2},Q,\) R, C, D, G, S, M, N, A and B can be expressed in the form of Lagrangian polynomial as
where \(\left( *\right) \) represents any of the twelve unknowns. Therefore, the test function w is obtained as
where \(w_{i}\) is the weight of the test function and \(\Psi _{i}(x,y)\) are the corresponding shape function for the four-node rectangular elements such that
Equation (108) can be reacst using Eqs. (109) and (110) as
The local stiffness matrix and forcing vector for each element can be found as
or alternatively, in a compact form,
where
and
Finally, we obtain the following global systems of equations for each individual elements as
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Rahman, M.H., Yang, S. & Kim, C.I. A third gradient-based continuum model for the mechanics of continua reinforced with extensible bidirectional fibers resistant to flexure. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. 35, 563–593 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-023-01198-9
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