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Chapter 7<br />

Interaction Between Intraply<br />

and Interply Failure <strong>in</strong> Lam<strong>in</strong>ates<br />

F.P. van der Meer and L.J. Sluys<br />

Abstract A mesoscale model <strong>for</strong> f<strong>in</strong>ite element analysis of failure <strong>in</strong> lam<strong>in</strong>ates is<br />

presented. The model consists of separate parts <strong>for</strong> failure <strong>in</strong>side a ply (<strong>in</strong>traply) and<br />

failure between plies (<strong>in</strong>terply). Both parts offer a description from onset of failure<br />

to complete local failure, thus allow<strong>in</strong>g <strong>for</strong> progressive failure analysis. Intraply failure<br />

is simulated with a soften<strong>in</strong>g plasticity model based on a Tsai-Wu criterion with<br />

viscoplastic regularization. Details are presented on the implementation of the soften<strong>in</strong>g<br />

law <strong>for</strong> orthotropic materials <strong>in</strong> f<strong>in</strong>ite element computation. Interply failure<br />

is modeled us<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>terface elements with a damage law <strong>for</strong> mixed mode delam<strong>in</strong>ation.<br />

The per<strong>for</strong>mance of the model is illustrated by means of an analysis of a<br />

lam<strong>in</strong>ate with a sharp <strong>in</strong>ternal notch – a case <strong>in</strong> which different modes of ply failure<br />

successively take place and <strong>in</strong>teract with failure between the plies.<br />

7.1 Introduction<br />

Failure of lam<strong>in</strong>ated composites is generally analyzed on the mesolevel, i.e. the<br />

lam<strong>in</strong>ate is modeled as a stack of homogeneous plies, each with its own orthotropic<br />

properties that depend on the fiber direction (see e.g. [6,10] and references there<strong>in</strong>).<br />

With this approach, two dist<strong>in</strong>ct failure mechanisms may occur <strong>in</strong> the lam<strong>in</strong>ate: failure<br />

<strong>in</strong>side a ply (<strong>in</strong>traply) and failure between the plies (<strong>in</strong>terply). The first of these<br />

can be connected to different underly<strong>in</strong>g micromechanical failure modes, such as<br />

fiber fracture, fiber buckl<strong>in</strong>g, matrix crack<strong>in</strong>g and fiber/matrix debond<strong>in</strong>g. The second<br />

is referred to as delam<strong>in</strong>ation. Ultimate failure of a lam<strong>in</strong>ate is often preceded<br />

by both failure mechanisms. There<strong>for</strong>e, simulation of failure <strong>in</strong> lam<strong>in</strong>ated composites<br />

requires a model which <strong>in</strong>cludes both <strong>in</strong>traply and <strong>in</strong>terply failure as well as<br />

<strong>in</strong>teraction. In this paper, such a model is presented. For both failure mechanisms,<br />

F.P. van der Meer and L.J. Sluys<br />

Faculty of Civil Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048,<br />

2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands, e-mail: f.p.vandermeer@tudelft.nl<br />

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