A concise interface constitutive law for analysis of delamination and splitting in composite materials and its application to scaled notched tensile specimens

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1982-1995

  Jiang, Wen Guang ^a   Hallett, Stephen R ^a   Green, Ben G ^a   Wisnom, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohesive interface; Composite materials; Constitutive law; Delamination; Progressive failure analysis

Indexed keywords

DELAMINATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE PROPERTIES; TENSILE TESTING;

COHESIVE INTERFACE; CONSTITUTIVE LAW; PROGRESSIVE FAILURE ANALYSIS;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

DELAMINATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LAMINATED COMPOSITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE PROPERTIES; TENSILE TESTING;

EID: 33847379011     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1842     Document Type: Article

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