Representative volume element for composites reinforced by spatially randomly distributed discontinuous fibers and its applications

Combining with the random sequential absorption (RSA) algorithms, the method entitled Fiber Growth Method is presented for generating the representative volume element (RVE) with the spatially randomly distributed discontinuous fibers and with a relatively high fiber volume fraction (∼25%). The formulation of the Axes Distance Method for checking the overlapping of fibers in the RVEs is discussed. Within the framework of elasticity, the...