Damage Mechanics for Laminated Composites outlines commonly encountered damage mechanisms and failure modes in laminated composites and provides strategies for avoiding them. The book primarily analyzes two types of damage commonly observed in laminated composites, transverse matrix cracking and delamination, and is divided into 3 sections, the first providing an introduction to the topic, covering the stress-strain relationship, thermodynamics, material categorization, common experimental observations, laminate theory, and the generalized plan strain problem. The second section discusses transverse matrix cracking, including subjects such as cracked laminate analysis, Hashin’s analysis, shear lag, the ply-discount technique, continuum damage mechanics, and the effects of viscosity. The third section analyzes delamination, including energy release rates, delamination modeling, and Abaqus models, and the book concludes with a discussion of progressive failure analyses and future developments.
Table of Contents
Part I Basic Consideration1. Introduction to Damage Mechanics for Laminated Composites
2. Constitutive Relationship for Anisotropic Elastic Materials
3. Nonlinearity in the In-Plane Shear Behavior of Unidirectionally Fibre-Reinforced Composites
4. Laminate Analyses
5. The Generalized Plane Strain Problem
Part II Transverse Matrix Cracking
6. Introduction to Cracked Laminate Analysis
7. Different Cracked Laminate Analyses
8. Continuum Demage Mechanics (CDM)
9. Effects of Viscosity
Part III Delamination
10. Introduction to Delamination
11. Evaluation of Energy Release Rates
12. Delamination Modeling Through Cohesive Zone Model
13. Abaqus Model
14. Various Subtleties in Delamination Models
Part IV: Other Developments
15. Progressive Failure Analyses in Laminated Composites
16. Future Developments and Outlook for Damage Mechanics in Laminated Composites
