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Active Fiber-reinforced Composites are artificial bodies consisting of one or more layers of parallel ceramic fibers embedded in a polymer matrix. In this paper we propose a mathematical model for their constitutive response by importing certain concepts from the modeling of fibrous living tissues and by regarding an AFC as a special piezoelectric material body whose stored energy is a weighted sum of the stored energies of fibers and matrix.
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Nardinocchi, P., Podio-Guidugli, P. (2010). AFCs: Active-Stress vs. Active-Strain Modeling. In: Ganghoffer, JF., Pastrone, F. (eds) Mechanics of Microstructured Solids 2. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05171-5_5
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