@inproceedings{aee30392193a4d7e8395e71adf878da7,
title = "An integrated computational materials engineering method for woven carbon fiber composites preforming process",
abstract = "An integrated computational materials engineering method is proposed in this paper for analyzing the design and preforming process of woven carbon fiber composites. The goal is to reduce the cost and time needed for the mass production of structural composites. It integrates the simulation methods from the micro-scale to the macro-scale to capture the behavior of the composite material in the preforming process. In this way, the time consuming and high cost physical experiments and prototypes in the development of the manufacturing process can be circumvented. This method contains three parts: the micro-scale representative volume element (RVE) simulation to characterize the material; the metamodeling algorithm to generate the constitutive equations; and the macro-scale preforming simulation to predict the behavior of the composite material during forming. The results show the potential of this approach as a guidance to the design of composite materials and its manufacturing process.",
author = "Weizhao Zhang and Huaqing Ren and Zequn Wang and Liu, {Wing K.} and Wei Chen and Danielle Zeng and Xuming Su and Jian Cao",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported through a subcontract from the Ford Motor Company with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy?s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under Award Number DEEE0006867. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Author(s).; 19th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming, ESAFORM 2016 ; Conference date: 27-04-2016 Through 29-04-2016",
year = "2016",
month = oct,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1063/1.4963592",
language = "English (US)",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Elias Cueto and Francisco Chinesta and Emmanuelle Abisset-Chavanne",
booktitle = "ESAFORM 2016",
}