Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics

MODELING OF INHOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS
AND RELATED FIELDS

Miscellaneous Sites

DOWNLOADS OF REPORTS, COURSE NOTES AND LECTURE NOTES

• A Short Introduction to Basic Aspects of Continuum Micromechanics
  ILSB-Report 206 (replaces CDL-FMD-Report 3-1998), version 240929
  by H.J. Böhm, TU Wien (pdf, approx. 5.6 MB)
• Micromechanics
  (lecture notes plus public domain micromechanics code by I. Temizer)
• Micromechanics of Composites
  Wikiversity learning project

WIKIPEDIA ENTRIES RELATED TO CONTINUUM MICROMECHANICS OF MATERIALS

• Micromechanics
  
• Eshelby's Inclusion
  
• Effective Medium Approximations
  
• Representative Elementary Volume
  

SOME MICROMECHANICS SOFTWARE SITES

• AMAT (evaluation of property contribution tensors; NMSU Center for Micromechanics)
• CraFT (free Fourier-based homogenization software; CNRS-LMA)
• DIGIMAT (multiscale modelling; E-Xstream Engineering)
• FeelMath (computational homogenization; FH/ITWM)
• GeoDict (microstructure generator; FH/ITWM)
• OOF (object-oriented finite element analysis of real material microstructures; NIST/CTCMS)
  
• VAMUCH (homogenization analysis package; AnalySwift)

• ELAMX² ("composite calculator"; LFT, TU Dresden)
• ESAComp (laminate design package; Altair HyperWorks)
• FiberSIM (composites design package; Siemens)
  
• TexGen (mesostructure generator for textile composites; Composites Research Group, University of Nottingham)
• The Laminator (lamination theory; Michael Lindell)
• WiseTex (and related programs for modelling textile composites; Composite Materials Group, KU Leuven)

SOME SITES ON CELLULAR MATERIALS, FOAMS

• metalfoam.net
  
• Microrheology of Ordered and Random Foams
  slides presented by Andrew M. Kraynik at the Meeting Jamming and Rheology: Constrained Dynamics on Microscopic and Macroscopic Scales, UCSB, October 12-16, 1997

MISCELLANEOUS

• cdmHUB
  
• Reinforced Plastics Web Site (reinforcedplastics.com)
  

• Materials Algorithms Project, UK

• Nano & Micromechanics Laboratory, Brown University

• MatWeb Material Data

If you know of other pertinent sites, please, send the coordinates to hjb@ilsb.tuwien.ac.at.