Micromechanical Analysis of Thick Woven Fabric Composite RVEs: Asymptotical Approach & Validation

Abstract

Equivalent mechanical property evaluation of plain weave fabric composite is carried out by Variational Asymptotic Method(VAM) and Finite Element Modelling based unit cell homogenization technique separately. VAM formulation of 4 Cell Simplified RVE of fabric composite is attempted. It is observed that it yields accurate and fast computation of the properties against any change of parameters.