Orifici, Adrian and Thomson, R.S. and Degenhardt, Richard and Bisagni, C. and Bayandor, J. (2007) Development of a finite element methodology for the propagation of delaminations in composite structures. Mechanics of Composite Materials, 43 (1), pp. 9-28. Springer New York. doi: 10.1007/s11029-007-0001-7. ISSN 0191-5665 (Print) 1573-8922 (Online).
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Abstract
Analysing the collapse of skin-stiffened structures requires capturing the critical phenomenon of skin-stiffener separation, which can be considered analogous to interlaminar cracking. This paper presents the development of a numerical approach for simulating the propagation of interlaminar cracks in composite structures. A degradation methodology was introduced in MSC.Marc, which involved the modelling of a structure with shell layers connected by user-defined multiple-point constraints (MPCs). User subroutines were written that employ the virtual crack closure technique (VCCT) to determine the onset of crack growth and modify the properties of the user-defined MPCs to simulate crack propagation. Methodologies for the release of failing MPCs are presented and are discussed with reference to the VCCT assumption of self-similar crack growth. The numerical results obtained by using the release methodologies are then compared with experimental data for a double-cantilever beam specimen. Based on this comparison, recommendations for the future development of the degradation model are made, especially with reference to developing an approach for the collapse analysis of fuselage-representative structures.
Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/50383/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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Document Type: | Article | ||||||||||||||||||
Title: | Development of a finite element methodology for the propagation of delaminations in composite structures | ||||||||||||||||||
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Date: | January 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Mechanics of Composite Materials | ||||||||||||||||||
Refereed publication: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||||||||
In SCOPUS: | No | ||||||||||||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 43 | ||||||||||||||||||
DOI : | 10.1007/s11029-007-0001-7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 9-28 | ||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Springer New York | ||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0191-5665 (Print) 1573-8922 (Online) | ||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||
Keywords: | delamination, virtual crack closure technique, double cantilever beam, propagation modelling | ||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport (old) | ||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Program: | Aeronautics | ||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | Aircraft Research (old) | ||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Aeronautics | ||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Program: | L AR - Aircraft Research | ||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | L - Structures & Materials (old) | ||||||||||||||||||
Location: | Braunschweig | ||||||||||||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems > Structural Mechanics | ||||||||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Ries, Doris | ||||||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 11 Sep 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 27 Apr 2009 14:09 |
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