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Fiber Orientation Predictions—A Review of Existing Models
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Kugler, Susanne Katrin Kech, Armin Cruz, Camilo Osswald, Tim |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Fiber reinforced polymers are key materials across different industries. The manufacturing processes of those materials have typically strong impact on their final microstructure, which at the same time controls the mechanical performance of the part. A reliable virtual engineering design of fiber-reinforced polymers requires therefore considering the simulation of the process-induced microstructure. One relevant microstructure descriptor in fiber-reinforced polymers is the fiber orientation. This work focuses on the modeling of the fiber orientation phenomenon and presents a historical review of the different modelling approaches. In this context, the article describes different macroscopic fiber orientation models such as the Folgar-Tucker, nematic, reduced strain closure (RSC), retarding principal rate (RPR), anisotropic rotary diffusion (ARD), principal anisotropic rotary diffusion (pARD), and Moldflow rotary diffusion (MRD) model. We discuss briefly about closure approximations, which are a common mathematical element of those macroscopic fiber orientation models. In the last section, we introduce some micro-scale numerical methods for simulating the fiber orientation phenomenon, such as the discrete element method (DEM), the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method and the moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method. |
| Starting Page | 69 |
| e-ISSN | 2504477X |
| DOI | 10.3390/jcs4020069 |
| Journal | Journal of Composites Science |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2020-06-08 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal of Composites Science Manufacturing Engineering Fiber Orientation Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics Modeling |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |