Modelling damage, fatigue and failure of composite materials

Publication Data

• Title Modelling damage, fatigue and failure of composite materials
• Contributors R. Talreja, J. Varna
• Publisher Woodhead Publishing
• Publication date 2015
• Publication location Oxford
• Language English

Contents

Preface

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

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

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

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

Topics

• Composite materials
• Strength of materials

Modelling damage, fatigue and failure of composite materials. ISBN 9781782422983. Published by Woodhead Publishing in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.