This repository contains a Python package called planarfibers
which contains selected contributions of the paper

@article{BauerBoehlke2022,
    author = {Julian Karl Bauer and Thomas Böhlke},
    title = {On the dependence of orientation averaging mean field homogenization on planar fourth-order fiber orientation tensors},
    journal = {Mechanics of Materials},
    volume = {170},
    pages = {104307},
    year = {2022},
    issn = {0167-6636},
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2022.104307},
    url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167663622000886},
    keywords = {Fiber orientation tensor, Anisotropy, Elasticity, Small strain, Mean field homogenization, Fiber reinforced composites, Closure approximation},
}

Please see license, acknowledgment and cite the paper given above and the latest Zenodo-DOI.

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/JulianKarlBauer/orientation_averaging_mean_field.git

pip install planarfibers

• Clone this repository to your machine
• Open a terminal and navigate to your local clone
• Install the package from the local clone into the current environment in develop mode:

   python setup.py develop

Note: Develop vs. install

Rendered example notebooks are in the docs. These notebooks and corresponding scripts can be found here.

The research documented in this repository has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) - project number 255730231. The support by the German Research Foundation within the International Research Training Group “Integrated engineering of continuous-discontinuous long fiber reinforced polymer structures“ (GRK 2078) is gratefully acknowledged.