Modelling fatigue and damping behaviour of plant fibre composites

The main objective of this postdoctoral fellowship is the development of a suitable model to predict the fatigue and damping behaviour of plant fibre composites.

The main tasks related to the work will be the development of a model and the associated numerical tools to simulate the time-delayed and fatigue behaviour of plant fibre composites, its use to conduct sensitivity analysis and comparison with multiscale experimental analyses.

The proposed postdoctoral fellowship is funded by the European project SSUCHY (www.ssuchy.eu).