A concise interface constitutive law for analysis of delamination and splitting in composite materials and its application to scaled notched tensile specimens

By Wenlixia Jiang, S. Hallett, Ben G. Green, M. Wisnom. 2007

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Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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Citations in the corpus

Scaling Effects in Notched Composites (2010, methodology): “This has been done using finite element analysis with cohesive zone interface elements between all the plies to model delamination [25,28].”
A crack tip tracking algorithm for cohesive interface element analysis of fatigue delamination propagation in composite materials (2012, methodology): “The formulation of the displacement-based damage variable utilised in this work has been described elsewhere (Jiang et al., 2007) and is summarised here for completion.”
Measurement of resistance curves in the longitudinal failure of composites using digital image correlation (2010, unknown): “Despite the significant advances in the analysis models for the prediction of fracture in composite materials such as advanced failure criteria and associated damage models [1–7], sophisticated kinematic representations of failure mechanisms [8,9], and cohesive elements to deal with delamination [10”
Accurate simulation of delamination growth under mixed-mode loading using cohesive elements: Definition of interlaminar strengths and elastic stiffness (2010, background): “However, among the several formulations of cohesive finite elements that have been recently proposed [5–10,12–18], few have been thoroughly validated for mixed-mode loading conditions.”
Compressive failure of laminates containing an embedded wrinkle; experimental and numerical study (2015, methodology): “Interfacial failure between plies was modelled using a 3D cohesive interface constitutive law [23] which is outlined here in brief.”
Computational modeling of complex failure mechanisms in laminates (2012, methodology): “This results in a crack pattern similar to that of earlier numerical analyses of these experiments by Jiang et al.,32 where matrix cracks were modeled with preinserted interface elements.”
A fatigue degradation law for cohesive interface elements – Development and application to composite materials (2010, methodology): “Previous work [7] has shown that for IM7/8552 carbon-epoxy pre-preg material, a value of α = 1 gives a best fit to experimental data from [33].”
A phantom node formulation with mixed mode cohesive law for splitting in laminates (2009, methodology): “One way to implement this is to model the split with interface elements (see Wisnom and Chang 2000; Yang and Cox 2005; Hallett and Wisnom 2006b; Jiang et al. 2007 ).”
An experimental and numerical investigation into the damage mechanisms in notched composites (2009, methodology): “The triangles 0—rmax I —d f I and 0—rmax II —d f II are the bilinear responses in the pure opening and pure shear modes respectively [16].”