ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the computational techniques are presented for multiscale analyses of composite structures. The emphasis of the techniques is exchange of critical information from one length scale to another so that the overall analysis can use all the critical information to reliably predict the behavior of the composite structures. The chapter presents the overall strategy and main concepts for multiscale analysis modeling of general composite structures, which is followed by necessary modeling schemes for composite materials. The multiscale analysis of composite structures consists of two loops that complete one cycle, and the cycle repeats itself. The loops are the preloop and the postloop before the composite structural level analysis. The objective of the stiffness loop is to compute the effective material properties of the composite structure so that the composite structure can be analyzed using the effective material properties.
