Influence of the principal tensile stresses on delamination fracture mechanisms and their associated morphology for different loading modes in carbon/epoxy composites

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1676-1680

  Mollon V ^a   Bonhomme, J ^a   Vina J ^a   Arguelles A ^a   Fernandez Canteli A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

B. Delamination; B. Fracture; C. Finite element analysis; D. Fractography

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; CARBON/EPOXY COMPOSITES; CRACK FRONTS; CRACK PLANE; DELAMINATION FRACTURE; DELAMINATION TOUGHNESS; DOUBLE CANTILEVER BEAM; END-NOTCH FLEXURES; FE MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; FRACTURE MORPHOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; LOADING MODES; MICROMECHANISMS; MIXED MODE; MIXED-MODE RATIO; MODE MIXITY; STRESS STATE; TEST CONFIGURATIONS;

CANTILEVER BEAMS; COALESCENCE; CRACK TIPS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LAMINATES; LOADING; MICROCRACKS; MORPHOLOGY; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRESS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84858158986     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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