Non-Gaussian simulation of local material properties based on a moving-window technique |
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Authors: | L L Graham K Gurley F Masters |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21212, USA;b Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper, a moving-window micromechanics technique, Monte Carlo simulation, and finite element analysis are used to assess the effects of microstructural randomness on the local stress response of composite materials. The randomly varying elastic properties are characterized in terms of a field of local effective elastic constitutive matrices using a moving-window technique based on a finite element model of a given digitized composite material microstructure. Once the fields are generated, estimates of the random properties are obtained for use as input to a simulation algorithm that was developed to retain spectral, correlation, and non-Gaussian probabilistic characteristics. Rapidly generated Monte Carlo simulations of the constitutive matrix fields are used in a finite element analysis to create a series of local stress fields associated with the random material sample under uniaxial tension. This series allows estimation of the statistical variability in the local stress response for the random composite. The identification of localized extreme stress deviations from those of the aggregate or effective properties approach highlight the importance of modeling the stochastic variability of the microstructure. |
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Keywords: | Stochastic simulation Micromechanics Random media Random fields Non-Gaussian simulation Moving-window analysis |
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