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This paper introduces an efficient and simple method to automatically generate and mesh geometrically parametrized representative volume elements for plain woven fiber-reinforced composites. The presented approach is capable of generating representative volume elements with 10%–55% fiber volume fraction. The practical feasibility of the model is demonstrated on numerical examples for isotropic and anisotropic tow materials which are compared to analytical solutions.

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Automatic generation and discretization fully periodic representative volume element periodic mesh plain woven composite

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Automatic generation and discretization of fully periodic representative volume elements of plain woven composites

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