Composite laminate delamination simulation and experiment: A review of recent development

A Tabiei, W Zhang - Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2018‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Composite laminate has extensive usage in the aerospace and automotive industries. Thus
delamination, one of its most prevalent and challenging failure modes, has attracted …

A critical review of available composite damage growth test data under fatigue loading and implications for aircraft sustainment

L Molent, A Haddad - Composite Structures, 2020‏ - Elsevier
With growing interest in moving towards a slow-growth design or in-service sustainment
basis for aircraft composite and bonded structures, there is a need to establish whether the …

A new approach to model delamination growth in fatigue using the Virtual Crack Closure Technique without re-meshing

NV De Carvalho, GE Mabson, R Krueger… - Engineering Fracture …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
A modeling approach is proposed to simulate delamination propagation in fatigue that
combines the Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT) with a progressive nodal release …

A robust cumulative damage approach for the simulation of delamination under cyclic loading conditions

A Russo, A Riccio, A Sellitto - Composite Structures, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Interlaminar damage evolution is one of the topics of main interest for composite materials
research. An excellent level of knowledge has been achieved in the frame of the studies on …

Piecewise-linear generalizable cohesive element approach for simulating mixed-mode delamination

NV De Carvalho, MW Czabaj, JG Ratcliffe - Engineering Fracture …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
A cohesive element formulation is proposed that provides a general framework to
approximate experimentally measured Traction–Separation Law (TSL) shapes. Unlike other …

Analysis of local stress ratio for delamination in composites under fatigue loads

A Raimondo, C Bisagni - AIAA Journal, 2020‏ - arc.aiaa.org
An approach based on the cohesive zone model for analyzing delamination in composite
laminates under cyclic fatigue loading is presented. The proposed technique, called “min …

Modeling fatigue damage onset and progression in composites using an element-based virtual crack closure technique combined with the floating node method

NV De Carvalho, R Krueger - American Society for Composite (ASC) …, 2016‏ - ntrs.nasa.gov
A new methodology is proposed to model the onset and propagation of matrix cracks and
delaminations in carbon-epoxy composites subject to fatigue loading. An extended interface …

An explicit delamination propagation algorithm to simulate delamination growth under quasi-static and fatigue loading without re-meshing using virtual crack closure …

N Vieira De Carvalho, M Ramnath… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
A modeling approach is proposed to simulate delamination propagation in composite
laminates under both quasi-static and fatigue loading regimes. Delamination growth is …

Combining progressive nodal release with the virtual crack closure technique to model fatigue delamination growth without re-meshing

N Vieira De Carvalho, R Krueger, GE Mabson… - 2018 AIAA/ASCE/AHS …, 2018‏ - arc.aiaa.org
The present work summarizes an approach to model mixed-mode 3D fatigue crack growth
using the Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT) without requiring remeshing. It is …

Validation of a Discrete Damage Mechanics Methodology Using the Static and Fatigue Behavior of Carbon/Epoxy Tapered Specimens

PM Rao, M Mordasky, MR Gurvich… - 2018 AIAA/ASCE/AHS …, 2018‏ - arc.aiaa.org
The objective of this study was to perform independent Verification and Validation (V&V)[1,
2] of a Discrete Damage Mechanics (DDM) approach based on the Floating Node Method …