Virtual material characterization process for composite materials: an industrial solution

Detailed material modeling covering low continuum scales and scale-transition methods offers material and design engineers a virtual tool for the virtual material assessment and optimization, relaxing on the experimental testing efforts. This contribution demonstrates the different steps of a Virtual Material Characterization (VMC) process applied for the prediction of elastic properties of a real meso-scale composite geometry. The presented R&D results have been achieved as part of a running R&D program (M3 MacroModelMat), in which the meso-modeling framework will be extended with a key and unique aspect: non-linear and damage composite behavior to be used for attributes such as static strength, dynamic strength and NVH.