EFFICIENT MULTISCALE RECURSIVE MICROMECHANICS OF COMPOSITES FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

The NASA Multiscale Analysis Tool (NASMAT) software is examined and discussed as a platform for multiscale modeling of composites for engineering applications. NASMAT performs analysis of materials with any arbitrary number of length scales through the use of recursive procedures and data structures and also can function as an effective material model within structural finite element models. The software’s efficiency is studied by varying the...