Mechanical Behavior of Mode I Delamination of a Laminated Composite Material

Abstract

The objective of our work is to analyze numerically in three dimensions by the finite element method of the effect of a mechanical load on the delamination of unidirectional and multidirectional stratified composites in order to determine the energy release rate G in Mode I and the Von Mises equivalent stress distribution along the damaged area under the influence of several parameters such as applied load and delamination size. The results obtained in this study show that unidirectional composite laminates have better mechanical strength on the loading line than multi-directional composite laminates.

Keywords

• Delamination,Release energy rate,Stratified composite,Finite element method and ply

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