Accurate prediction of stiffness degradation in the damaged plies (laminae) is a fundamental
requirement for developing damage models for composite materials. In this study, a …

A variational model is developed to exactly determine both stress and displacement fields at
free edges of general symmetric composite laminate strips under thermomechanical loads …

A robust variational approach is first developed for predicting stress/displacement fields and
effective thermo-elastic constants in a laminate with arbitrary lay-up, containing uniformly …

The present research work is aimed at predicting degradation of laminate stiffness and
laminate thermal expansion coefficients (TEC) as a function of crack density for general …

During the last decade new models for bending stiffness prediction of damaged composite
laminates have been proposed in the literature advancing the earlier developed …

Application of a continuum damage mechanics formulation rests on the ease with which the
material constants involved in the formulation can be determined. For an initially linear …

The aim of this study is to develop a novel model for predicting homogenized properties of a
cracked ply in a symmetric laminate using the crack density and thickness of the ply. In doing …

A variational approach based on the minimization of complementary energy is developed to
determine accurately a complete solution for both free-edge stress and displacement …

The practically important problem of the modification of laminate out-of-plane shear stiffness
by ply cracks is hardly investigated in the literature. In this paper, out-of-plane shear stiffness …

This work addresses the evaluation of the stiffness of fiber-reinforced composite laminates,
by means of a computational meso-mechanic model, considering two non-uniformly spaced …