Composite laminate has extensive usage in the aerospace and automotive industries. Thus
delamination, one of its most prevalent and challenging failure modes, has attracted …

This paper presents finite element simulations of two standardized and sequential tests
performed in polymer–matrix composite laminates reinforced by unidirectional fibers: the …

Phase-Field (PF) methods of fracture have emerged as powerful modeling tools for
triggering fracture events in solids. These numerical techniques efficiently alleviate mesh …

The development of predictive numerical methods, which accurately represent the
progressive failure of long fiber composite materials, is nowadays required for the …

A new transversely-isotropic elastic–plastic constitutive model for unidirectional fiber
reinforced polymers (FRP) is presented. The model is able to represent the fully nonlinear …

The progressive damage analysis of fiber-reinforced composite materials is a challenging
task, especially when complicated cracking scenarios arise due to the onset and …

Low velocity impact events significantly reduce the mechanical performance of composite
structures even though the damage might be barely visible. Numerical simulations can be …

The study of the damage sequence in polymer-based composite laminates during an impact
event is a difficult issue. The problem can be more complex when the plies are thin. In this …

Matrix crack induced delamination is one of the predominant failure mechanisms in
laminated composites under off-axis loading. However, there exist a reduced number of …

Over the last few decades, uncertainty quantification in composite materials and structures
has gained a lot of attention from the research community as a result of industrial …