Fig. 2.

Example of discrete network architecture (a) and meshed RVE (b). The red spheres in (a) are plotted in the locations of the internal crosslinks used for the 3D triangulation procedure. For illustration purposes the images presented in this figure were generated with $b_{\mathrm{RVE}}/3$, $t_{\mathrm{RVE}}/3$, $L_{\mathrm{fc}}/3$, ${\rho }_{\mathrm{xl}}\times 2$ compared to the values specified in Sect. 4.2.1