Finite element modeling of integral viscoelastic properties of textile composites

Abstract

The problem of modeling the effective integral viscoelastic properties of unidirectional composite materials is considered. To calculate the integral properties of viscoelasticity, the Fourier transform and the inverse Fourier transform are used, as well as the method of asymptotic averaging for composites with steady polyharmonic vibrations, and a finite element algorithm for solving local problems of the viscoelasticity theory on the periodicity cell of the composite. To obtain the material constants, a method of approximation of the Fourier images of the relaxation and creep kernels is proposed, which makes it possible to avoid the numerical error of the inverse Fourier transform.

Keywords

• unidirectional composite materials
• viscoelastic properties
• numerical modeling