Micro-mechanical modelling of shear-driven fibre compressive failure and of fibre kinking for failure envelope generation in CFRP laminates

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1214-1222

  Gutkin, R ^a   Pinho, S T ^a   Robinson, P ^a   Curtis, P T ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. Carbon fibres; B. Fracture; C. Finite Element analysis (FEA)

Indexed keywords

A. CARBON FIBRES; CARBON FIBRES; CFRP LAMINATE; COMPRESSIVE FAILURE; COMPRESSIVE LOADING; FAILURE ENVELOPE; FAILURE MECHANISM; FE MODEL; FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; IN-PLANE SHEAR; MICRO-MECHANICAL;

CARBON FIBERS; FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FRACTURE;

CARBON FIBER; COMPRESSIVE PROPERTY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SHEAR PROPERTY;

EID: 77953134953     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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