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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
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Paper 165

Contact Stress Analysis of Fully Adherent Fiber-Matrix Elastic Two-Dimensional Composite Solids

M.S.M. Sampaio, R.R. Paccola and H.B. Coda

São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M.S.M. Sampaio, R.R. Paccola, H.B. Coda, "Contact Stress Analysis of Fully Adherent Fiber-Matrix Elastic Two-Dimensional Composite Solids", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 165, 2013. doi:10.4203/ccp.102.165
Keywords: finite element method, geometrical nonlinearity, fibre-reinforced solids, contact stress analysis.

Summary
This paper presents a finite element formulation for the analysis of two dimensional reinforced elastic solids developing both small and large deformations without increasing the number of degrees of freedom. Fibres are freely spread over the domain without the necessity of node coincidence. Contact stress analysis is carried out for both straight and curved elements using two different strategies. The first employs consistent differential relations and the second adopts a simple average calculation. The development of all equations is described in the paper. Numerical examples are employed to demonstrate the potential of the proposed methodology.

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