Development of Multi-scale Analysis and Microscopic Stress Evaluation Software V-SEM for Porous Materials

Abstract

Thanks to the intensive research works on the multi-scale computational methods for heterogeneous materials in the last decade, the theoretical and numerical issues in the multi-scale analysis have been matured. In this study, a novel practical software V-SEM has been developed so that many engineers in the materials science and bio-mechanics fields, for instance, can use the multi-scale evaluation in their daily research works. The homogenization method is employed to bridge the micro- and macroscopic properties and phenomena. The developed software provides the users, who are not familiar with the homogenization method, an accurate analysis and visualization environment. In this paper, the outline of the developed software is presented with a demonstrative example.