Carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites have been increasingly used by
aerospace and other industries for their high specific stiffness and strength properties. When …

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

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 …

In the present work the problem of the stiffness degradation of multidirectional symmetric
laminates in the presence of off-axis cracks is studied. A new analytical model is presented …

This paper, for the first time, proposed an axial elastic modulus degradation prediction
method of [0 m/90 n] s cross-ply laminates using a machine learning (ML) model. The data …

In a fibre-reinforced polymer matrix composite (PMC), the function of the fibre is to bear the
applied load that is transferred via shear stresses through the fibre-matrix interface from the …

Stiffness reduction of angle-ply laminates of the type [θm (2)/θn (1)] s containing intralaminar
cracks in the middle laminae is analyzed. Using the principle of minimum complementary …

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

Composites are finding lot of applications in aerospace, automobile and many other sectors
due to their high strength to weight ratio and longer fatigue life. For assembly or electrical …

This paper examines the application of a cohesive zone model to predict the open hole
compressive strength of an IM7/8552 carbon fibre/epoxy quasi-isotropic multidirectional …