Mesh-independent matrix cracking and delamination modeling in laminated composites

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 749-773

  Iarve, Endel V ^a,b   Gurvich, Mark R ^c   Mollenhauer, David H ^a   Rose, Cheryl A ^d   Dávila, Carlos G ^d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite; Delamination; Failure; Mesh independent cracking

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DIRECTION; COMPOSITE; CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS; CRACK SURFACES; DAMAGE LOCATION; DISPLACEMENT DISCONTINUITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GAUSSIAN INTEGRATION; HEAVISIDE STEP FUNCTION; INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; INTEGRATION POINTS; MATRIX CRACKING; MESH INDEPENDENT CRACKING; MIXED MODE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; RESIDUAL THERMAL STRESS; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; STRENGTH PREDICTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TRANSVERSE CRACK; TRANSVERSE MATRIX CRACKS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STEEL SHEET; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DELAMINATION;

EID: 80054844627     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.3195     Document Type: Article

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