Numerical assessment of failure mechanisms in fibre metal laminates

In this contribution numerical models are discussed for describing failure mechanisms in fibre metal laminates. Fibre metal laminates form a new class of materials which are considered for a possible application to the fuselage of future aircraft generations. The intensive experimental analyses of these materials are focused on the assessment of...

An interface element for modelling the onset and growth of mixed-mode cracking in aluminium and fibre metal laminates

The application of interface elements and enriched or rate-dependent continuum models to micro--mechanical analyses of fracture in compistes

A non-linear finite element approach for the analysis of mode-I free edge delamination in composites

On the numerical integration of interface elements

Micromechanical analyses of delamination, fracture and debonding in advanced composites

Numerical simulation of free edge delamination in graphite-epoxy laminates under uniaxial tension