Brett A. Bednarcyk

TL;DR: The unified approach presented in the book for conducting multiscale analysis and design of conventional and smart composite materials is also applicable for structures with complete linear and nonlinear material behavior, with numerous applications provided to illustrate use.

TL;DR: In this article, an efficient implementation of the generalized method of cells micromechanics model is presented that allows analysis of periodic unidirectional composites characterized by repeated unit cells containing thousands of subcells.

TL;DR: In this article, a model using thermodynamically based Schapery Theory (ST) to model progressive microdamage in the matrix phase is presented, which is not governed with a matrix failure criterion, but rather matrix failure occurs naturally through the evolution of microdamage.

TL;DR: In this paper, a high-fidelity generalized method of cells (HFGMC) was used to model the transverse deformation of titanium matrix composites, which exhibit obvious effects of interfacial debonding.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors implemented the smeared crack band theory within the high-fidelity generalized method of cells micromechanics model to capture progressive failure within the constituents of a composite material while retaining objectivity with respect to the size of the discretization elements used in the model.