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Title: | Delaminations at the free edge of a composite laminate | Authors: | Amrutharaj, G.S. Lam, K.Y. Cotterell, B. |
Keywords: | Angle ply laminates Delaminations Fracture process zone |
Issue Date: | 1996 | Citation: | Amrutharaj, G.S., Lam, K.Y., Cotterell, B. (1996). Delaminations at the free edge of a composite laminate. Composites Part B: Engineering 27 (5) : 475-483. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/1359-8368(96)00015-7 | Abstract: | The concept of a fracture process zone where damage takes place is used to analyse the delaminations at the free edges of angle ply laminates under uniaxial tension. The use of a fracture process zone removes the singularity in the interlaminar stresses and enables the initiation and growth of delaminations to be modelled for a perfect laminate without any assumed prior defects. Two different models for the stress-displacement relationship in the fracture process zone are examined: a constant stress up to critical displacement and a linear relationship. Finite element analysis shows that there is little difference in the predictions obtained from the two models. An approximate analysis is presented for the constant stress stress-displacement model which is shown to agree with a finite element solution and experimental data. Hence it is argued that the approximate method using a constant stress model for the fracture process zone is sufficient for accurate prediction of delaminations. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Limited. | Source Title: | Composites Part B: Engineering | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/58066 | ISSN: | 13598368 | DOI: | 10.1016/1359-8368(96)00015-7 |
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