Delamination and other damage mechanisms, such as matrix cracks, fibre-matrix debonding and fiber failure can appear as a consequence of impact events with foreign objects under in service conditions and maintenance operations. These phenomena are seldom analyzed together without discussing how the interferences between the different damage mechanisms can influence their evolution under different loading conditions. The present work is focused on the development of a specific numerical procedure, able to take into account the failure modes interaction in composite laminated structures subject to a low velocity impact. As a matter of fact, a very fine mesh refinement is required to correctly evaluate the stress state where the impact induced damage onsets. Hence, in order to reduce the computational cost without compromising the accuracy of results, a global/local approach, characterized by a very refined mesh in the critical impact region interacting with a coarser mesh in the rest of the geometrical domain, has been implemented in the FE model. In the present work, Multi-Point-Constraints (MPC) has been used to link the refined local domain to the coarse global domain without using transition meshes. The implementation and the analyses have been performed in the ABAQUS® FE environment.

A Global Local Numerical Model for the Prediction of Impact Induced Damage in Composite Laminates / A., Riccio; G., Di Felice; G., Lamanna; E., Antonucci; F., Caputo; Lopresto, Valentina; M., Zarrelli. - In: APPLIED COMPOSITE MATERIALS. - ISSN 0929-189X. - On line:(2013), pp. 1-10. [10.1007/s10443-013-9343-6]

A Global Local Numerical Model for the Prediction of Impact Induced Damage in Composite Laminates

LOPRESTO, VALENTINA;
2013

Abstract

Delamination and other damage mechanisms, such as matrix cracks, fibre-matrix debonding and fiber failure can appear as a consequence of impact events with foreign objects under in service conditions and maintenance operations. These phenomena are seldom analyzed together without discussing how the interferences between the different damage mechanisms can influence their evolution under different loading conditions. The present work is focused on the development of a specific numerical procedure, able to take into account the failure modes interaction in composite laminated structures subject to a low velocity impact. As a matter of fact, a very fine mesh refinement is required to correctly evaluate the stress state where the impact induced damage onsets. Hence, in order to reduce the computational cost without compromising the accuracy of results, a global/local approach, characterized by a very refined mesh in the critical impact region interacting with a coarser mesh in the rest of the geometrical domain, has been implemented in the FE model. In the present work, Multi-Point-Constraints (MPC) has been used to link the refined local domain to the coarse global domain without using transition meshes. The implementation and the analyses have been performed in the ABAQUS® FE environment.
2013
A Global Local Numerical Model for the Prediction of Impact Induced Damage in Composite Laminates / A., Riccio; G., Di Felice; G., Lamanna; E., Antonucci; F., Caputo; Lopresto, Valentina; M., Zarrelli. - In: APPLIED COMPOSITE MATERIALS. - ISSN 0929-189X. - On line:(2013), pp. 1-10. [10.1007/s10443-013-9343-6]
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