MULTI-SCALE INTERFACE SIMULATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FIBER REINFORCED RESIN COMPOSITES

Abstract

Abstract: Nowadays, fiber reinforced resin matrix composites are widely applied in various industries as lightweight structural materials, and the design and research of interface have also attracted people's widespread attention as the Achilles' heel of composite materials. The traditional experimental characterization methods are difficult to explain the complex equilibrium/non-equilibrium interface interaction mechanism, but computer simulation technology shows strong superiority in the visualization of interface interaction mechanisms and the description of quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR). In this paper, the modeling methodology and the mechanism of interface of fiber reinforced resin composites and its effect on mechanical properties, thermodynamic properties and kinetic properties of materials are in hierarchical order, including perspectives from microscale, macroscale, and cross-scale, and this article proposes the guiding significance of computer simulation technology for cross-scale constitutive parameters, nonlinear friction dissipation mechanisms, high strengthening and toughening mechanisms, and high-throughput prediction and screening which represent the trends in future development of high-performance composites.

Key words: composite, microscopic simulation, macroscopic simulation, cross-scale simulation

CLC Number:

TB332

LI Chong-rui, GAO Cong, SHI Peng-cheng, YAN Chun. MULTI-SCALE INTERFACE SIMULATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FIBER REINFORCED RESIN COMPOSITES[J]. Composites Science and Engineering, 2020, 0(11): 116-122.

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