On damage modelling of laminated composite shells subjected to low velocity impact

Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 645-647

  Smojver, I ^a   Soric, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Delaminations; Finite element analysis; Impact damage; Layered composite shells; Matrix cracks

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DELAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOCOMPOSITES; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

BARELY VISIBLE IMPACT DAMAGES; FINITE ELEMENT CODES; IMPACT DAMAGES; LAMINATED COMPOSITE SHELL; LAYERED COMPOSITES; MATRIX CRACK; MORI-TANAKA APPROACHES; TRANSIENT DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 77955279019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008044046-0.50158-5     Document Type: Chapter

References (8)

1. Razi H, Kobayashi AS Delamination in cross-ply laminated composite subjected to low-velocity impact. AIAA J 1999, 31:1408-1502.
2. Collombet F, Bonini J, Lataillade JL A three-dimensional modelling of low velocity impact damage in composite laminates. Int J Numer Methods Eng 1996, 39:1491-1516.
3. Smojver I, Soric J, Alfirevic I, Pamin J Computational prediction of matrix cracks and delaminations in layered composites. Proc. 2nd Eur Conf Computational Mechanics. CD-ROM Edition 2001, ECCOMAS, Cracow, Cracow, 2001. Z. Waszczyszyn (Ed.).
4. Gavazzi AC, Lagoudas DC On the numerical evaluation of Eshelby's tensor and its application to elastoplastic fibrous composites. Comput Mech 1990, 7:13-19.
5. Hashin Z Failure criteria for unidirectional fibre composites. J Appl Mech 1980, 47:329-334.
6. Tsai SW A survey of macroscopic failure criteria for composite materials. J Reinf Plast Comp 1984, 3:40-62.
7. ABAQUS Theory Manual, ver. 6.2-1 2000, Hibbit, Karlsson and Sorensen.
8. Ganapathy S, Rao KP Failure analysis of laminated composite cylindrical/spherical shell panels subjected to low velocity impact. Comput Struct 1998, 68:627-641.