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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 89
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Edited by: M. Papadrakakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper 142
Accessing Mechanical Properties of Engineering Materials via Virtual Nanoindentation V. Gountsidou and H.M. Polatoglou
Physics Department, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, Greece V. Gountsidou, H.M. Polatoglou, "Accessing Mechanical Properties of Engineering Materials via Virtual Nanoindentation", in M. Papadrakakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 142, 2008. doi:10.4203/ccp.89.142
Keywords: concrete, engineering materials, nanoindentation, modeling, mechanical properties.
Summary
Following the enormous development of the technology there is a great need for
complex engineering materials to be studied in multilayered films with reinforcing
fibres at the nano-level. Careful modeling of the structure of engineering materials,
using finite element analysis, may reveal specific behavior of the component
materials and their interface. Nowadays it seems to be very easy to succeed in virtual
nanoindentation, a widely known nondestructive method.With the help of one of the
most powerful computational tools of engineering problems, using finite element
analysis programme ANSYS, we created a model of a rectangular material with a
fibre, harder than the matrix material, having the shape of half-cylinder embedded in
the middle of the top of the material and a small rectangular indenter. We
constructed models for three different cases according to the position of the indenter
in relation with the fibre and in every case studied the change of the mechanical
properties of the materials.
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