Fatigue design assessment is a crucial step in the design process of ships and offshore
structures. To date, the stochastic approach is commonly used to calculate the total lifetime …

Adopting effective and accurate numerical tools capable of predicting damage effects on the
structure reduces design, certification, and maintenance costs. However, the tools to assess …

To predict fatigue-driven delamination growth in real structures, it is inevitable to understand
delamination growth under real load spectra, also known as in-service loads, which most …

The mesoscale continuum damage model for laminated composites that has been
developed for the past 10 years at AMADE research group is extended for fatigue life and …

New benchmark studies of six different computational methods for simulating fatigue-driven
delamination cracks in composite laminated structures under cyclic loading are presented …

A numerical study on toughening laminated composite materials against delamination by
initiating multiple interlaminar cracks is presented. Different configurations of interface …

In this work, a robust method for determining the input fatigue parameters of a fatigue
cohesive zone model recently developed by Dávila is presented. The method is based on …

This paper follows on from part III (Llobet et al., 2020) where a mesoscale continuum
damage mechanics (CDM) model for composite laminates under static and fatigue loads …

Most of the existing methods for fatigue-driven delamination are limited to two-dimensional
(2D) applications or their predictive capabilities have not been validated in three …

Load interaction effects in fatigue-driven delamination in fiber-reinforced polymer
composites are neglected in state-of-the-art models although this assumption highly …