Predicting the effect of non-uniform ply cracking on the thermoelastic properties of cross-ply laminates

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1841-1856

  McCartney, L N ^a   Schoeppner, G A ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. Anisotropy; C. Damage mechanics; C. Elastic properties; C. Laminates; C. Transverse cracking

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CARBON FIBERS; CRACK INITIATION; GLASS FIBERS; STRESS ANALYSIS; THERMOELASTICITY;

NON-UNIFORM PLY CRACKING;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

COMPOSITE;

EID: 0036837192     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(02)00091-X     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Constrained cracking in glass fibre reinforced epoxy cross-ply laminates
2. Constitutive relations of a cracked composite lamina
3. Analysis of cracked laminates: A variational approach
4. Analysis of orthogonally cracked laminates under tension
5. Thermal expansion coefficients of cracked laminates
6. The strain energy release rate of composite microcracking: A variational approach
7. The formation and effect of outer-ply microcracks in cross-ply laminates: A variational approach
8. Some new variational mechanics results on composite microcracking
9. Theory of stress transfer in a 0-90-0 cross ply laminate containing a parallel array of transverse cracks
10. The prediction of cracking in biaxially loaded cross-ply laminates having brittle matrices
11. The prediction of non-uniform cracking in biaxially loaded cross-ply laminates
12. A recursive method of calculating stress transfer in multiple-ply cross-ply laminates subject to biaxial loading
13. Effects of cracking in multi-ply cross-ply laminates
14. Predicting non-linear behaviour in multiple-ply cross-ply laminates resulting from micro-cracking
15. Prediction of microcracking in composite materials
16. Predicting transverse crack formation in cross-ply laminates resulting from micro-cracking
17. On a variational theorem in elasticity
18. Some transverse cracking problems in cross-ply laminates
19. Stress fields and energy release rates in cross-ply laminates
20. 3-D Thermoelastic moduli and saturation crack density for cross-ply laminates with transverse cracks
21. Axisymmetric micromechanical stress fields in composites
22. Transverse cracking and stiffness reduction in composite laminates
23. Stress transfer mechanics for ply cracks in general symmetric laminates
24. Generalised framework for the prediction of ply cracking in any symmetric laminate subject to general in-plane loading
25. Model to predict effects of triaxial loading on ply cracking in general symmetric laminates
26. Validation of models for transverse ply cracks in composite laminates
27. Stress fields in composite laminates
28. Axisymmetric stress fields in involute bodies of revolution