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An analytical system was developed for prediction of the onset and progress of plastic flow of oriented fiber composite materials in which both externally applied complex stress states and stress raisers were present. The predictive system was a unique combination of two numerical systems, the “SAAS II” finite element analysis system and a micromechanics finite element program. The SAAS II system was used to generate the three-dimensional stress distributions, which were used as the input into the finite element micromechanics program. Appropriate yielding criteria were then applied to this latter program. The accuracy of the analytical system was demonstrated by the agreement between the analytically predicted and the experimentally measured flow values of externally notched tungsten wire reinforced copper oriented fiber composites, in which the fiber fraction was 50 vol pct.
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Flynn, P.L., Ebert, L.J. An analytical method for predicting plastic flow in notched fiber composite materials. Metall Trans A 8, 723–728 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02664782
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02664782