A damage model for the simulation of delamination in advanced composites under variable-mode loading

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1072-1089

  Turon, A ^a   Camanho, P P ^b   Costa, J ^a   Davila C G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decohesion elements; Delamination; Fracture

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADVANCED COMPOSITES; DAMAGE MECHANICS; DECOHESION ELEMENTS; PROGRESSIVE DELAMINATION;

DELAMINATION;

EID: 33745960897     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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