Overall properties in fibrous elastic composite with imperfect contact condition

In this contribution, the complete set of effective elastic moduli are obtained by means of the asymptotic homogenization method (AHM), for two-phase fibrous periodic composites with imperfect contact conditions of linear spring type. This work is an extension of previous reported results, where only perfect contact for elastic composite with square cells were considered. The constituents of the composites exhibit transversely isotropic properties. As validation of the present method, some numerical examples and comparisons with theoretical and experimental results verified that the present model is efficient for the analysis of composites with presence of imperfect interface. The present method can provide benchmark results for other numerical and approximate methods.