PlanarFibers

This repository contains a Python package called planarfibers
which contains selected contributions of the paper

@article{BauerBoehlke2022,
    author = {Julian Karl Bauer and Thomas Böhlke},
    title = {On the dependence of orientation averaging mean field homogenization on planar fourth-order fiber orientation tensors},
    journal = {Mechanics of Materials},
    volume = {170},
    pages = {104307},
    year = {2022},
    issn = {0167-6636},
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2022.104307},
    url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167663622000886},
    keywords = {Fiber orientation tensor, Anisotropy, Elasticity, Small strain, Mean field homogenization, Fiber reinforced composites, Closure approximation},
}

Please see license, acknowledgment and cite the paper given above and the latest Zenodo-DOI.

Installation

• Clone this repository to your machine
• Open a terminal and navigate to your local clone
• Install the package from the local clone into the current environment in develop mode:

   python setup.py develop
  

Note: Develop vs. install

Examples

Both example notebooks and example scripts are rendered here and given as source here.

Acknowledgment

The research documented in this repository has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the International Research Training Group “Integrated engineering of continuous-discontinuous long fiber reinforced polymer structures“ (GRK 2078). The support by the German Research Foundation (DFG) is gratefully acknowledged.