Microstructure Modeling of Particulate Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites

Abstract

The study of microscopic and macroscopic response of a particulate reinforced MMC using finite element analysis is the aim of the current study. In this regard, two types of microstructure models are subjected to FE analysis. In the first part of the work, a technique is presented for the generation of artificial microstructure containing spherical and ellipsoid shaped inclusions. The problem of detection of ellipsoidal intersection is tackled using newly available algorithms. The FE analysis of the artificial microstructure and a summary of the results form the second part of the study. It is seen that the results from the newly developed models agree very well with the published results and that the microstructure generation technique can be reused in many computational micromechanics problems with minimum modifications.