A comprehensive review is conducted on the very high cycle (VHC) and gigacycle (GC)
fatigue of fiber-reinforced composite materials. The main objective was to conduct a …

With the increasing application of CFRP in engineering structures, researchers are devoting
more attention to its fatigue issues. Due to the greater complexity and diversity of composite …

A methodology for determination of material parameters for the progressive damage
analysis (PDA) model implemented in Abaqus is presented. The methodology is based on …

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are becoming increasingly popular as an
alternative to conventional civil engineering materials in existing structures as externally …

A method is presented to calculate the material parameters required by the progressive
damage analysis (PDA) material-model in ANSYS®. The proposed method is based on …

A constitutive model to predict stiffness reduction due to transverse matrix cracking is
derived for laminae with arbitrary orientation, subject to in-plane stress, embedded in …

Discrete damage mechanics (DDM) refers to micromechanics of damage constitutive
models that, when incorporated into commercial finite element software via user material …

Abstracts A particular emphasis is placed on the thermal aged oxide/oxide ceramic matrix
composites under cyclic thermal shocks, which exhibit hierarchical internal structures …

This paper considers damage development mechanisms in cross-ply laminates using an
accurate numerical method that assumes a Generalized Plane Strain (GPS) state. A 2D …

Prediction of transverse damage initiation and evolution for not necessarily symmetric
laminates under membrane and/or bending loads is the subject of this work. The laminate …