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Computational Methods for Debonding in Composites

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9 Progressive Damage Model<strong>in</strong>g of Composite Materials 185<br />

Ultimate failure<br />

(Compression)<br />

Ki K<strong>in</strong>k BandBroaden<strong>in</strong>g Matrix El Elastic Matrix<br />

Ultimatefailure<br />

(Tension)<br />

and fibre region and fiber<br />

damage<br />

damage<br />

Fig. 9.3 An example of the constitutive response obta<strong>in</strong>ed from the proposed analogue model<br />

matrix composites. CODAM is a phenomenological model that smears the material<br />

response (stress-stra<strong>in</strong> behaviour) over a f<strong>in</strong>ite RVE of the lam<strong>in</strong>ate made up of a<br />

repeat<strong>in</strong>g unit or sub-lam<strong>in</strong>ate through the thickness and a characteristic size, hc,<strong>in</strong><br />

the plane of the lam<strong>in</strong>ate. The construction of the model at this scale ensures that:<br />

(1) by consider<strong>in</strong>g a sub-lam<strong>in</strong>ate the lam<strong>in</strong>a <strong>in</strong>teractions <strong>in</strong> terms of damage <strong>in</strong>itiation<br />

and evolution are implicitly taken <strong>in</strong>to account, and (2) the characteristic planar<br />

length provides a measure of the <strong>in</strong>herent toughness (or brittleness) of the material<br />

(the smaller the hc the more brittle the material). The latter is also related to the<br />

size of the fully developed fracture process zone (i.e. the height of the damage zone<br />

ahead of a crack <strong>in</strong> a test configuration that leads to a stable crack growth). In <strong>for</strong>mulat<strong>in</strong>g<br />

CODAM two sets of curves are def<strong>in</strong>ed: one relat<strong>in</strong>g the damage variables<br />

to an effective stra<strong>in</strong>, and the other relat<strong>in</strong>g modulus reduction to the damage variables.<br />

This results <strong>in</strong> a stra<strong>in</strong>-soften<strong>in</strong>g type stress-stra<strong>in</strong> curve <strong>for</strong> the characteristic<br />

RVE. Damage variables are def<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>for</strong> each of the pr<strong>in</strong>cipal orthotropic directions<br />

as well as <strong>in</strong> shear load<strong>in</strong>g, and the damage growth and modulus reduction curves<br />

are unique <strong>in</strong> each case and sensitive to differences <strong>in</strong> tension and compression. The<br />

CODAM approach has been designed to be computationally oriented, conceptually<br />

simple and easy to characterize.<br />

The model has been implemented as a user material model <strong>in</strong> the commercial<br />

f<strong>in</strong>ite element code, LS-DYNA, and comb<strong>in</strong>ed with a modified crack band scheme<br />

to address mesh sensitivity. Its ability to predict the response of composites under<br />

a variety of load<strong>in</strong>g scenarios has been demonstrated elsewhere [16, 17, 31–33].<br />

A simplified version of CODAM has also been successfully implemented <strong>in</strong> the<br />

commercial implicit f<strong>in</strong>ite element code, ABAQUS.<br />

9.3 Model Calibration<br />

For its characterization, the CODAM constitutive model requires some basic <strong>in</strong>put<br />

parameters such as the amount of fracture energies under compression and tension,<br />

the plateau stress and peak stresses <strong>in</strong> addition to the standard elastic constants. To<br />

obta<strong>in</strong> some of these parameters, results from experiments such as the over-height<br />

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