Low velocity impact modelling in laminate composite panels with discrete interface elements

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Experimental and numerical studies on the impact response of damage-tolerant hybrid unidirectional/woven carbon-fibre reinforced composite laminates (2018, unknown): “Delamination, matrix cracks and fibre breakage, resulting from an impact event, may significantly reduce the residual strength of composite structures [7,8].”
Validation of low velocity impact modelling on different stacking sequences of CFRP laminates and influence of fibre failure (2013, background): “(a) Modelling of impact damage and element types and (b) mesh shape in each oriented ply [15].”
Failure analysis of CFRP laminates subjected to compression after impact: FE simulation using discrete interface elements (2013, unknown): “In previous studies, Bouvet et al. [24–26] presented a discrete 3D FE model of impact on laminated composites.”
Low velocity impact modeling in composite laminates capturing permanent indentation (2012, unknown): “In a previous study [24], we suggested that another phenomenon responsible for permanent deformation seems to be impact debris in 45 cracks through the ply thickness (Fig.”