Modeling delamination growth in composites under fatigue loadings of varying amplitudes

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 533-541

  Landry, Benoit ^a   LaPlante, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

B. Delamination; B. Fatigue; C. Finite element analysis; Cohesive elements

Indexed keywords

COHESIVE ELEMENT; COHESIVE ZONES; DAMAGE MECHANICS; DCB SPECIMEN; DELAMINATION GROWTH; DELAMINATION TOUGHNESS; FATIGUE DELAMINATION; FATIGUE LOADINGS; FATIGUE TESTS; LIFE PREDICTIONS; MODEL PREDICTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROGRESSIVE DELAMINATION; STANDARD MATERIALS;

DELAMINATION; FATIGUE TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STEEL SHEET;

FATIGUE DAMAGE;

EID: 84856478247     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2011.08.020     Document Type: Article

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