Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials

Modelling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials provides the latest research on 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 a comprehensive source of physics-based models for the analysis of progressive and critical failure phenomena in composite materials, and focuses on materials modeling, while also reviewing treatments to give the reader thorough direction for analyzing failure in composite structures.

Part one of the book reviews the damage development in composite materials such as generic damage and damage accumulation in textile composites and under multiaxial loading, while part two focuses on the modeling of failure mechanisms in composite materials with attention given to fibre/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.

Examines current research in modeling damage, fatigue, and failure of composite materialsProvides a comprehensive source of physics-based models for the analysis of progressive and critical failure phenomena in composite materialsAssesses the failure and life prediction in composite materialsDiscusses the applications of predictive failure models such as computational approaches to failure analysis

Preface

Part One: Damage development in composite materials

1 Composite materials: constituents, architecture and generic damage 

2 Fatigue damage mechanisms

3 Damage accumulation in textile composites

4 Damage accumulation under multiaxial fatigue loading

Part Two: Modelling of failure mechanisms in composite materials

5 Matrix and fibre-matrix interface cracking in composite materials

6 Fibre/matrix debonding in composite materials: transverse loading

7 Fibre/matrix debonding in composite materials: axial loading

8 Multiple matrix cracking in composite materials

9 Fibre failure and debonding in composite materials

10 Compression failure in composite materials

11 Delamination fracture in composite materials

Part Three: Modelling of damage and materials response in composite materials

12 Micro-level approaches to modelling of damage in composite materials- COD-based methods

13 Micro-level approaches to modelling of damage in composite materials: generalized plain strain analysis

14 Multi-scale approaches to modelling of damage in composite materials

Part Four: Failure analysis of composite materials and joints

15 Multi-scale failure assessment of composite laminates

16 Modelling the crack initiation in UD laminates under multiaxial fatigue loading

17 Incorporating manufacturing defects in failure analysis

18 Failure from stress gradients and concentrations

19 Failure model approaches for composite joints