Computational modeling of impact damage in laminated composite plates

A numerical study on interacting damage mechanisms in FRP laminated composite plates

Experimental testing and numerical analysis often travel in tandem in a design process. Recent advances in novel numerical techniques to simulate mesh objective crack propagation offer a great potential for accurate and efficient damage analysis of composite laminates. This paper presents a numerical study on computational modeling of mesh...

Progressive damage in [0/90]s laminated plates (poster)

Numerical analysis of progressive damage in fiber-reinforced laminated composite plates is a challenge due to the presence of different, complex failure mechanisms and their mutual interaction. A meso-scopic progressive failure model is presented to simulate interacting damage mechanisms (matrix cracking and delamination) in laminated composite...

A partition-of-unity method for modeling coupled thermo-mechanical problems in frp laminates subjected to impact

A finite element procedure for modeling progressive damage in laminated composite shell structures

A computational model for prediction of progressive damage in laminated composites

A finite element model based on solid-like shell elements is presented for the simulation of progressive damage in laminated composite structures. To model mesh independent matrix cracking, a discontinuous solid-like shell element (DSLS) is utilized. The shell element has only displacement degrees of freedom, thus avoids the need for a...