Hygrothermal degradation of elastic properties of fiber reinforced composites: A micro-scale finite element analysis

In this paper, the effect of hygrothermal conditions on elastic properties of polymeric composite materials is investigated by the finite element method. A micromechanical degradation model is developed based on Fick’s second law utilizing an ABAQUS python scripting micro modeling (APSMM) and an ABAQUS parallel finite element analysis (APFEA). The APSMM algorithm is used to study the degradation of elastic constants of a fiber-reinforced...