Composite laminate materials are used extensively in various applications particularly in
aircraft structures. During operation, the aircraft's structure will experience mechanical …

This paper formulates an analytical model based on intrinsic material properties to predict
ply cracking initiation and propagation in multiple plies and its impact on laminate strength in …

The current research reported the thermal free vibration characteristics of the debonded
composite shell structure considering the large geometrical deformation. The delaminated …

To predict the fatigue life of fibrous composites, a CDM model is proposed based on
effective average local stresses such that can predict fatigue life of layered composites with …

The proposed semi-layerwise approach captures the mechanical behavior of delaminated
composite plates using four equivalent single layers independently of the lay-up. Two …

This work deals w ith the development and extension of higher-order models for
delaminated doubly curved composite shells with constant radii of curvatures. The …

Delamination induced by ply cracking is an important damage mechanism that results in
stress redistribution and degrades both the in-plane and out-of-plane laminate properties. In …

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 …

In this paper, stiffness reduction of general symmetric laminates containing a uniform
distribution of matrix cracks in a single orientation is analyzed. An admissible stress field is …

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 …