Element-Free Galerkin modelling of composite damage

Autor: Lorenzo Iannucci, G.A.O. Davies, Irene Guiamatsia, Brian Falzon
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Composites Science and Technology. 69:2640-2648
ISSN: 0266-3538
Popis: Delamination and matrix cracking are routine damage mechanisms, observed by post-mortem analysis of laminated structures containing geometrical features such as notches or bolts. Current finite element tools cannot explicitly model an intralaminar matrix microcrack, except if the location of the damage is specified a priori. In this work, a meshless technique, the Element-Free Galerkin (EFG) method, is utilized for the first time to simulate delamination (interlaminar) and intralaminar matrix microcracking in composite laminates.
Databáze: OpenAIRE