
Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials
- 2nd Edition - September 23, 2023
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Ramesh Talreja, Janis Varna
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 4 8 9 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 4 8 8 - 8
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Request a sales quoteModeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials, Second Edition provides the latest research in the field of composite materials, an area that has attracted a wealth of research, with significant interest in the areas of damage, fatigue, and failure. The book is fully updated, and is a comprehensive source of physics-based models for the analysis of progressive and critical failure phenomena in composite materials. It focuses on materials modeling while also reviewing treatments for analyzing failure in composite structures. Sections review damage development in composite materials such as generic damage and damage accumulation in textile composites and under multiaxial loading.
Part Two focuses on the modeling of failure mechanisms in composite materials, with attention given to fiber/matrix cracking and debonding, compression failure, and delamination fracture. Final sections examine the modeling of damage and materials response in composite materials, including micro-level and multi-scale approaches, the failure analysis of composite materials and joints, and the applications of predictive failure models.
- Provides a comprehensive source of physics-based models for the analysis of progressive and critical failure phenomena in composite materials
- Assesses failure and life prediction in composite materials
- Discusses the applications of predictive failure models such as computational approaches to failure analysis
- Covers further developments in computational analyses and experimental techniques, along with new applications in aerospace, automotive, and energy (wind turbine blades) fields
- Covers delamination and thermoplastic-based composites
Industrial and academic researchers working in composite materials, aeronautic, automotive and energy applications and the development of technical textiles
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- About the Series
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering
- Preface to the second edition
- Part One. Damage development in composite materials
- 1. Failure mechanisms: observations
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Failure in UD composites
- 1.3. Failure modes in laminates
- 1.4. Conclusion
- 2. Fatigue damage mechanisms
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Axial tension fatigue of UD composites
- 2.3. Fatigue of UD composites in other loading modes
- 2.4. Conclusions
- 3. The process of cracking in textile composites subjected to quasistatic tensile and tension–tension fatigue loadings
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Overview of the cracking process
- 3.3. Initiation of matrix cracks
- 3.4. Influence of the yarn crimp
- 3.5. Influence of through-the-thickness reinforcement
- 3.6. Crack saturation and development of delaminations
- 3.7. Analogy between the damage development under quasistatic tension and tension–tension fatigue loadings
- 3.8. Conclusions
- 4. Damage accumulation under multiaxial fatigue loading
- 4.1. Introduction: parameters influencing the fatigue behavior of composites
- 4.2. Biaxial testing of composite laminates
- 4.3. Experimental results for the main test methods
- 4.4. Recent results from the University of Padova
- 4.5. Comparison with results on flat laminates
- 4.6. Conclusions
- Part Two. Modeling of failure mechanisms in composite materials
- 5. Matrix and fiber–matrix interface cracking in composite materials
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Modeling of failure initiation
- 5.3. Failure plane formation
- 5.4. Conclusions
- 6. Fiber–matrix debonding in composite materials: transverse loading
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Micromechanical view: numerical model
- 6.3. Failure initiation
- 6.4. The interface crack
- 6.5. Growth through the matrix
- 6.6. Micromechanical stages of the mechanism of damage under tension
- 6.7. Effect of a secondary transverse load
- 6.8. Effect of thermal residual stresses
- 6.9. Conclusions
- 7. Fiber–matrix debonding in composite materials: axial loading
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Single-fiber fragmentation test
- 7.3. Numerical simulation of debond crack propagation using LEFM
- 7.4. Numerical simulation of debond propagation using cohesive elements
- 7.5. Discussion and concluding remarks
- 8. Fiber failure and debonding in axially loaded UD composite materials
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Damage mechanisms in UD composites under quasistatic loading
- 8.3. Fiber/matrix interface debond growth
- 8.4. FEM models for surface/edge effects
- 8.5. Debond growth in cyclic loading
- 8.6. Summary and conclusions
- 9. Evolution of multiple matrix cracking
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Analytical models for evolution of multiple matrix cracking
- 9.3. Damage evolution in multidirectional laminates
- 9.4. Statistical aspects in multiple matrix cracking
- 9.5. Vinogradov–Hashin model
- 9.6. Recent developments
- 10. Compression failure of composite laminates
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Modeling
- 10.3. Strength data and predictions
- 10.4. Discussion and conclusions
- 11. Delamination fracture in composite materials
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Fracture mechanics concepts
- 11.3. Linear elastic fracture mechanics approach to delamination
- 11.4. Advanced fracture mechanics
- 11.5. Delamination under cyclic loading
- 11.6. Perspectives and trends
- 11.7. Summary
- Part Three. Modeling of damage and materials response in composite materials
- 12. The scale effect in composites, an explanation based on the mechanisms of damage
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Methods, tools, and materials
- 12.3. Damage onset: the appearance of a first debond
- 12.4. Damage progression in the 90 degrees ply
- 12.5. The experimental evidence
- 12.6. A physically based explanation of the scale effect
- 12.7. Applications
- 12.8. Summary and conclusions
- 13. Thermoelastic constants of damaged laminates: COD- and CSD-based methods
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Stiffness of damaged laminates in terms of COD and CSD
- 13.3. Average stress state between cracks and average COD and CSD
- 13.4. Analytical models for stress state between cracks
- 13.5. Experimental data and simulation examples
- 13.6. Conclusions
- Appendix 1: Derivation of damaged laminate stiffness
- 14. Microlevel approaches to modeling of damage in composite materials: Generalized plane strain analysis
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. Fundamental equations and conditions
- 14.3. Solution for undamaged laminates
- 14.4. Shear lag theory for cross-ply laminates
- 14.5. Generalized plane strain theory for cross-ply laminates
- 14.6. Calculation of in-plane thermoelastic constants for damaged laminates
- 14.7. Through-thickness properties of damaged laminates
- 14.8. Consideration of ply-crack closure
- 14.9. Results for general symmetric laminates
- 14.10. Prediction examples for cross-ply laminates
- 15. Semi-analytical techniques for analysis of cracked composite laminates
- 15.1. Introduction
- 15.2. Stress transfer models
- 15.3. Ply cracking damage evolution laws
- 15.4. Numerical examples
- 15.5. Closing remarks and outlook
- 16. A multiscale approach to modeling of composite damage
- 16.1. Introduction
- 16.2. Basic concepts and considerations
- 16.3. Failure mechanisms
- 16.4. Multiscale analysis
- 16.5. Application example for ply cracking in multidirectional laminates
- 16.6. Recent developments
- 16.7. Concluding remarks
- Part Four. Failure analysis of composite structures and joints
- 17. Computational modeling of damage in notched and unnotched composite laminates using a semi-discrete method
- 17.1. Introduction
- 17.2. Computational modeling using the SD2M model
- 17.3. Predictions
- 17.4. Conclusions
- 18. Regularized eXtended Finite Element Modeling of fatigue response in laminated composites
- 18.1. Introduction
- 18.2. Computational methodology
- 18.3. Verification of Rx-FEM coupon-level analysis
- 18.4. Validation of Rx-FEM subelement level analysis
- 18.5. Conclusions
- 19. Modeling the crack initiation in unidirectional laminates under multiaxial fatigue loading
- 19.1. Introduction
- 19.2. Peculiarities of fatigue failure
- 19.3. Calculation of local stresses
- 19.4. Validation
- 19.5. Constant–life diagrams
- 19.6. Conclusions
- 20. Incorporating manufacturing defects in damage and failure analysis
- 20.1. Introduction
- 20.2. Real initial material state
- 20.3. RIMS–performance relationships
- 20.4. Comprehensive failure analysis with defects
- 20.5. Conclusions
- 21. Damage simulations in composite structures in the presence of stress gradients
- 21.1. Introduction
- 21.2. Global/local FE techniques
- 21.3. Numerical techniques for interlaminar damage failure
- 21.4. Applications
- 21.5. Conclusions and future developments
- 22. Failure models for composite joints: an approach based on singular stress states
- 22.1. Motivation
- 22.2. Stress characterization
- 22.3. Generalized fracture toughness determination
- 22.4. Failure envelope for failure initiation prediction
- 22.5. Practical application for the design of adhesive joints
- 22.6. Conclusions and future developments
- Index
- Edition: 2
- Published: September 23, 2023
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- No. of pages: 618
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443184895
- eBook ISBN: 9780443184888
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