doi:10.1080/15376494.2015.1091529engTolosana Enrech, NarcisoRanz Angulo, DavidGracia Puyuelo, OscarCuartero Salafranca, JesúsMiravete de Marco, AntonioA micromechanical composite approach for finite element crashworthiness simulationART-2015-94868The present article deals with micromechanical composite modeling. Both, analytical and computational micromechanics approaches are described as well as micromechanical modeling of damage. Based on micromechanics of failure theory, a user subroutine including a progressive damage algorithm is programmed for finite element analysis. Three theoryexperiment correlations of tubes under a three point bending test have been carried out using the bi-phase material model developed along this project. These studies include three ply schedules. Keywords: composite materials, micromechanics, representative volume element, simulation, progressive damage, failure, finite element analysis.2015http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/5311710.1080/15376494.2015.1091529http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/53117oai:zaguan.unizar.es:53117info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/314182/EU/Modelling And Testing for Improved Safety of key composite StructurEs inalternatively powered vehicles/MATISSEMECHANICS OF ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES 23, 12 (2015), 1430-1436All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess