Stress analyses of composite laminate with delamination using X-FEM

International Journal of Computational Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 521-543

  Nagashima, Toshio ^a   Suemasu, Hiroshi ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Composite laminate; Delamination; Domain integral method; Energy release rate; Extended FEM

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION AFTER IMPACT; DOMAIN INTEGRAL METHOD; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BUCKLING; DELAMINATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENERGY RELEASE RATE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 34447504566     PISSN: 02198762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219876206001181     Document Type: Article

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