Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials

Ramesh Talreja, Janis Varna

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443184888
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Modeling 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

Table of contents

• Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials
• 1 Failure mechanisms
• 2 Fatigue damage mechanisms
• 3 The process of cracking in textile composites subjected to quasistatic tensile and tension–tension fatigue loadings
• 4 Damage accumulation under multiaxial fatigue loading
• 5 Matrix and fiber–matrix interface cracking in composite materials
• 6 Fiber–matrix debonding in composite materials
• 7 Fiber–matrix debonding in composite materials
• 8 Fiber failure and debonding in axially loaded UD composite materials
• 9 Evolution of multiple matrix cracking
• 10 Compression failure of composite laminates
• 11 Delamination fracture in composite materials
• 12 The scale effect in composites, an explanation based on the mechanisms of damage
• 13 Thermoelastic constants of damaged laminates
• 14 Microlevel approaches to modeling of damage in composite materials
• 15 Semi-analytical techniques for analysis of cracked composite laminates
• 16 A multiscale approach to modeling of composite damage
• 17 Computational modeling of damage in notched and unnotched composite laminates using a semi-discrete method
• 18 Regularized eXtended Finite Element Modeling of fatigue response in laminated composites
• 19 Modeling the crack initiation in unidirectional laminates under multiaxial fatigue loading
• 20 Incorporating manufacturing defects in damage and failure analysis
• 21 Damage simulations in composite structures in the presence of stress gradients
• 22 Failure models for composite joints
• Index