Isogeometric analysis (IGA) was used to study the micro mechanic behaviour of carbon fibre reinforced composite materials, with the goal to a better understanding and prediction capabilities of the distribution of stresses at the micro level domain.
Using of the geometry of the fibre, obtained through microscopy imaging of the cross-section of laminated Caron fibre composites, a more realistic characterisation of the maximum stress levels for different case-studies can be attained.
In the first stage, new knowledge was obtain on this new technique, mainly on the usage of the available software (open source).
The addition of two new team elements form the University of Luxembourg enabled the validation of the results obtained from the IGA technique, using other numerical methods, such as: Cut Finite Element Method (CutFem), Virtual Element Method (VEM) and the classical Finite Element Method.