Damage Modeling of Composite Structures

Damage Modeling of Composite Structures: Strength, Fracture, and Finite Element Analysis provides readers with a fundamental overview of the mechanics of composite materials, along with an outline of an array of modeling and numerical techniques used to analyze damage, failure mechanisms and safety tolerance. Strength prediction and finite element analysis of laminated composite structures are both covered, as are modeling techniques for delaminated composites under compression and shear. Viscoelastic cohesive/friction coupled model and finite element analysis for delamination analysis of composites under shear and for laminates under low-velocity impact are all covered at length.

A concluding chapter discusses multiscale damage models and finite element analysis of composite structures.

• Integrates intralaminar damage and interlaminar delamination under different load patterns, covering intralaminar damage constitutive models, failure criteria, damage evolution laws, and virtual crack closure techniques
• Discusses numerical techniques for progressive failure analysis and modeling, as well as numerical convergence and mesh sensitivity, thus allowing for more accurate modeling
• Features models and methods that can be seamlessly extended to analyze failure mechanisms and safety tolerance of composites under more complex loads, and in more extreme environments
• Demonstrates applications of damage models and numerical methods

Academic researchers/graduate students focusing on damage mechanics and finite element analysis of composite structures (can span mechanical, aeronautical, and ocean engineering). Professional engineers (mechanical, aeronautical, ocean) working with composite materials

1. Introduction to Damage, Strength, Fracture Mechanics, and FEA of Composite Structures
   2. Progressive Failure Properties and Strength Prediction of Laminated Composite Structures
   3. Localized Damage Models and Finite Element Analysis of Notched Composite Laminates Under Tension
   4. Cohesive Models and Finite Element Analysis of Delaminated Composites Under Compression
   5. Cohesive/Friction Coupled Model and Finite Element Analysis of Delaminated Composites Under Shear
   6. Viscoelastic Cohesive/Friction Coupled Model and Explicit Finite Element Analysis of Delaminated Composites Under Shear
   7. Damage Models and Explicit Finite Element Analysis of Thermoset Composite Laminates Under Low-Velocity Impact
   8. Damage Models and Explicit Finite Element Analysis of Thermoplastic Composite Laminates Under Low-Velocity Impact
   9. Explicit Finite Element Analysis of GLARE Composite Laminates Under Low-Velocity Impact
   10. Multiscale Damage Model and Finite Element Analysis of Composite Pressure Vessels