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 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 …

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

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 …

Ply cracking is an inherently stochastic process due to the random variability of local
material properties of the plies. Such randomness in microstructure and in failure evolution …

This article presents a finite element model to predict the thermo-mechanical behavior of ply-
cracked composite laminates from their discrete structure at the ply level, ie, the …

This paper presents a robust variational method for prediction of the effective thermoelastic
properties of laminates with parallel, but not necessarily coplanar intralaminar cracks …

The bending stiffness of carbon/epoxy and glass/epoxy cross-ply laminates with intralaminar
cracks in the surface 90° plies and local delaminations were studied experimentally using 4 …