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Numerical modeling of damage, property degradation and life prediction in fatigue of composite laminates

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Fatigue is a process which causes premature failure or damage of a material subjected to repeated loading. It is a complicated physical process which is difficult to accurately describe and model on a microscopic level. For composite materials the challenge goes beyond reaching an understanding of behavior comparable to the level obtained for homogeneous materials. Composite materials contain numerous internal boundaries which separate constituent materials that have different responses and different resistance to fatigue loading. The properties and behavior of composite materials are greatly influenced and completely controlled by the geometric and constitutive details of microvolumes of materials in the region of damage events [1]. From a damage mechanics point of view, the fatigue process generally occurs at the microscale and differs significantly from the global response. Because these microevents ultimately control the degradation of properties and performance, it is generally necessary to add micromechanical analysis to the macromechanical analysis commonly used for classical treatments. Numerical approaches are often needed to implement the micromechanical analysis which represents the local damage events during fatigue.

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Gao, Z. (1996). Numerical modeling of damage, property degradation and life prediction in fatigue of composite laminates. In: Bull, J.W. (eds) Numerical Analysis and Modelling of Composite Materials. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0603-0_9

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