Failure prediction in fiber-reinforced composites based on continuum damage mechanics
Paper in proceeding, 2019

The paper presents an approach to intra/inter-laminar failure modeling of fiber reinforced composites using continuum damage. The intra-laminar damage model is based on elastic damage, focusing propagation of damage for compression dominated loadings. A special feature is the study on ply elasticity, induced by graphene enhancement of the polymer matrix linked to the damage evolution. The results shows that the considered intra-laminar composite response is only slight affected by the graphene. The open hole compression test involves mechanisms of both intra- and interlaminar failure. The results show a fairly good correlation between the experiments and the proposed model.

Fracture modeling

Localization

Damage

Composites

Fiber kinking

Author

Sergio de Oliveira

Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)

Ragnar Larsson

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Material and Computational Mechanics

Maurício Donadon

Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)

Alfredo de Faria

Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)

Linnea Selegård

Saab

Proceedings - 7th ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON THE MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF COMPOSITES

7th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on the Mechanical Response of Composites
Girona, Spain,

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Applied Mechanics

Infrastructure Engineering

Composite Science and Engineering

Roots

Basic sciences

Infrastructure

C3SE (Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering)

Areas of Advance

Materials Science

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1/13/2021