Micromechanical modeling of short-fiber reinforced composites

This work is focused on the prediction of the elastic behavior of short-fiber reinforced composites. The predictions of the elastic behavior of mean-field homogenization methods are compared with experimental measurements. These methods are contrasted with a full-field voxel-based homogenization approach, and, it is investigated, whether the second-order orientation tensor delivers a sufficient microstructure description for the prediction of the elastic properties of the composite.