The present article provides a review on the nonlinear mechanical behavior of polymer
matrix composites (PMCs). Initially, essential mechanisms driving the nonlinear response of …

As a high-demand material, polymer matrix composites are being used in many advanced
industrial applications. Due to ecological issues in the past decade, some attention has …

A new 3D elastoplastic damage model is proposed to predict the plastic deformation and the
progressive failure of unidirectional laminated composite materials at the meso-scale level …

Cure-induced residual stresses have a great impact on the mechanical behavior of carbon
fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites. This paper develops an integrated analytical …

A computational micromechanics based Finite Element (FE) analysis methodology is
presented to predict the bi-axial failure envelope of a unidirectional (UD) carbon-epoxy …

Test and simulation of low-velocity impact and residual strength of composite structures is
usually limited to relatively thin laminates. However, numerous applications in the …

Attributed to the exponential growth in computing power, over the past two decades,
computational micromechanics has emerged as an indispensable branch in the field of …

This work presents a novel formulation of a 3D smeared crack model for unidirectional fiber-
reinforced polymer composites based on a stress invariant approach for transverse yielding …

A significant hardening response is often observed for the shear-dominated deformation of
Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics (CFRP). This non-linear response is typically modelled by …

Prognosis of dynamic damage in fiber-reinforced plastic structures is still a challenging
engineering issue. This study presents a novel approach to physically motivate the damage …