Ultra-high, molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) composites are advanced materials that lack experimentally driven, physics-based computational tools for predicting their response. This challenge exists for traditional fiber-based UHMWPE composites in a softer matrix material as well as the newer subclass based on films. Hybrid experimental-modeling-computational (HEMC) concepts for computational prediction of fiber- and film-based UHMWPE composites’ deformation and failure have been developed. This webinar will present the following:
- Deformation and failure mechanisms hypothesized to govern the response of fiber- and film- based laminates.
- Theory critical experiments (TCEs) specially designed to interrogate dominant failure mechanisms under multiaxial loading and as a function of strain rate and stress
- HEMC process that uses TCEs to develop predictive