CFM 2019

An Instability Analysis for Long Fiber Reinforced Composite with Asymptotic Numerical Method
Rui Xu  1, 2@  , Yanchuan Hui  2@  , Heng Hu  3@  , Qun Huang  2@  , Céline Bouby  4@  , Tarak Ben Zineb  4@  , Hamid Zahrouni  5, 6, *@  , Michel Potier-Ferry  7, 8@  
1 : Laboratory of Microstructure Studies and Mechanics of Materials  (LEM3)
Université de Lorraine - LEM3 (UMR7239)
2 : School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University
3 : School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University  -  Site web
8 South Road of East Lake, Wuchang, 430072 Wuhan, PR China -  Chine
4 : Laboratoire dÉtude des Microstructures et de Mécanique des Matériaux  (LEM3)
Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Université de Lorraine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7239
5 : DAMAS, Laboratory of Excellence on Design of Alloy Metals for low-mAss Structures, Université de Lorraine
Université de Lorraine
6 : Laboratoire d'Etude des Microstructures et de Mécanique des Matériaux  (LEM3)
Laboratory of Excellence on Design of Alloy Metals for low-mAss Structures (DAMAS), Université de Lorraine, France
7 : LEM3 - UMR CNRS 7239  -  Site web
Université de Lorraine
8 : Université de Lorraine, LEM3
Université de Lorraine, DAMAS Laboratory, 57045 Metz, France
* : Auteur correspondant

The fiber microbuckling in long fiber composites may lead to the compressive failure of the macrostructure. To study such a multiscale problem, direct simulation is limited due to the expensive computation cost and difficulties in selecting non-linear calculation paths, because there often exists a lot of bifurcation points around the useful one. This work is to propose an efficient multiscale model for accurately simulating and analyzing the instability phenomena of long fiber reinforced materials. The multi-level finite element method (FE2), see Nezamabadi et al. (2009), is adopted to realize the real-time interaction between macro- and microscopic levels: the macroscopic constitutive law is homogenized on the Representative Volume Element (RVE), and the microscopic deformation gradient is transferred from the associated macroscopic integration point. However, the total computation cost may be still every high because the RVE on each macroscopic integration point needs a sufficient fine mesh to simulate the microbuckling of long fibers. Thus, a Fourier related model, see Liu et al. (2012), is developed on the RVE to transform the fast varying microscopic unknowns into a series of slowly varying ones which only requires remarkably reduced meshes. In addition, the proposed RVE model allows one to control non-linear calculation paths easily by choosing the wavelength of the buckled fiber. The developed non-linear multiscale model is solved by the Asymptotic Numerical Method (ANM), see Cochelin et al. (1994), which is less time consuming and more robust than the classical iterative methods such as the Newton-Raphson or the arc-length (Riks) method. This path following technique benifits from its two main advantages:1) the step length is self-adapted in non-linear calculations; 2) the stiffness matrix only requires once inverse in each incremental step. The established multiscale model yields accurate results with a significantly improved computational efficiency.


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