Int. J. Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2013 291 Copyright © 2013 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Tensile load simulation and validation for glass fibre polymer composites Deepak Jain* Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, 144411, India E-mail: deepakjain_79@yahoo.com *Corresponding author Amardeep S. Kang Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur, Punjab, 148001, India E-mail: amardeepkang@gmail.com Abstract: In this paper, the tensile damage of glass fibre reinforced polymer has been investigated using the unit cell model. Tensile damage was induced for different failure load percentiles. Generalised plane strain theory has been used numerically to derive fundamental solution variables along with finite element model. In order to simulate the behaviour of unit cell model of composite for a small repeating area having a fibre surrounded by matrix a representative volume element (RVE) has been considered as the solution domain. The results from micromechanical model predictions and generalised plane strain theory have shown good agreements. Keywords: glass fibre reinforced polymer composites; unit cell modelling; representative volume element; RVE; tensile load. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Jain, D. and Kang, A.S. (2013) ‘Tensile load simulation and validation for glass fibre polymer composites’, Int. J. Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp.291–299. Biographical notes: Deepak Jain is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, India. He has ten years of teaching, research and industrial experience. His current research deals in environmental degradation analysis of FRPs and his research interest are in composites, surface engineering and tribology. Amardeep S. Kang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur, India. His main research interests are in tribology and composites.