Micromechanical analysis of thermo-inelastic multiphase short-fiber composites. Final report

Abstract A micromechanical formulation is presented for the prediction of the overall thermoinelastic behavior of multiphase composites which consist of short fibers. The analysis is an extension of the generalized method of cells that was previously derived for inelastic composites with continuous fibers, and the reliability of which was critically examined in several situations. The resulting three-dimensional formulation is extremely general, wherein the analysis of thermo-inelastic composites with continuous fibers as well as particulate and porous inelastic materials are merely special cases.