Air bubble is a manufacturing defect that is common to composite wind turbine blades, which
might evolve into cracks, leading to failure under load. The evolution and critical state of air …

The stress redistribution caused by a brittle fracture of one or several layers in a bi-material
periodically layered composite is considered. It is assumed that one of the composite …

The three-dimensional problem of a periodic unidirectional composite with a penny-shaped
crack traversing one of the fibers is analyzed by the continuum equations of elasticity. The …

The problem of brittle fracture of a 2D periodic porous material is considered. For the
considered relative density range the cellular material approximation with beam elements …

The plane problem of crack resistance in elastic materials with doubly periodic system of
voids is investigated. The relatively high fractional density (medium and low porosity) of …

Several methods for the analysis of composite materials with periodic microstructure in
which localized effects (such as concentrated loads, cracks and stationary/progressive …

The time-dependent stress field generated by the sudden appearance of a transverse crack
in a periodically layered composite that is subjected to a remote loading is determined. The …

The stress fields in an infinite elastic bimaterial layered system with an embedded rigid
ribbon-like inclusion oriented in the normal direction to the layering and subjected to a far …

The idea of employing the discrete Fourier transform casted as the representative cell
method for the solution of multiscale problems is illustrated. Its application in combination …

The temperature field induced by the dynamic application of a far-field mechanical loading
on a periodically layered material with an embedded transverse crack is investigated. To this …