Modelling competitive delamination and debonding phenomena in composite T-joints

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 3483-3489

  Baldi, A ^a   Airoldi, A ^a   Crespi, M ^a   Iavarone, P ^a   Bettini, P ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cohesive elements; Composite T joints; Damage tolerace; Debonding; Delamination; Explicit numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

DEBONDING;

ADHESIVE INTERFACES; COHESIVE ELEMENT; DAMAGE TOLERACE; DISPLACEMENT RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; QUASI STATIC ANALYSIS; T JOINTS;

DELAMINATION;

EID: 80052941204     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.04.574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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