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A micro-model of the intra-laminar fracture in fiber-reinforced composites based on a discontinuous Galerkin/extrinsic cohesive law method
Wu, Ling; Tjahjanto, Denny; Makradi, Ahmed et al.
20133rd International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures (CFRAC2013)
 

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Abstract :
[en] The hybrid discontinuous Galerkin (DG)/extrinsic cohesive law (ECL) method was recently proposed [1] to circumvent the drawbacks of the cohesive element methods. With the DG/ECL method, prior to fracture, the flux and stabilization terms arising from the DG formulation at interelement boundaries are enforced via interface elements in a way that guarantees consistency and stability, contrarily to traditional extrinsic cohesive zone methods. At the onset of fracture, the traction–separation law (TSL) governing the fracture process becomes operative without the need to modify the mesh topology since the cohesive elements required to integrate the TSL are already present. This DG/ECL method has been shown to be an efficient numerical framework that can easily be implement in parallel with excellent scalability properties to model fragmentation, dynamic crack propagation in brittle and small-scale yielding materials, both for 3D problems and for thin structures [1, 2]. In this work, following the developments in [3], the DG/ECL method is extended to the study of composite materials failures at the micro-scale. The method is applied to study the transverse traction of composite materials in characteristic micro-volumes of different sizes. The method captures the debonding process, assimilated to a damaging process before the strain softening onset. It is shown that the density of dissipated energy resulting from the damage (debonding) remains the same for the different studied cell sizes. During the strain softening phase, a micro-crack initiates and propagates, in agreement with experimental observations. After strain softening onset, the extracted macroscale cohesive law, obtained by the method proposed in [4], is ultimately shown to converge for the different cell sizes. The predicted behaviors are then compared to experimental results obtained from laminate tests, and are found to be in good agreement.
Disciplines :
Mechanical engineering
Author, co-author :
Wu, Ling ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Computational & Multiscale Mechanics of Materials (CM3)
Tjahjanto, Denny;  KTH
Makradi, Ahmed;  CRP Henri Tudor
Jérusalem, Antoine;  University of Oxford
Noels, Ludovic  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Computational & Multiscale Mechanics of Materials (CM3)
Language :
English
Title :
A micro-model of the intra-laminar fracture in fiber-reinforced composites based on a discontinuous Galerkin/extrinsic cohesive law method
Publication date :
June 2013
Event name :
3rd International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures (CFRAC2013)
Event place :
Prague, Czechia
Event date :
5-7 June
Audience :
International
European Projects :
FP7 - 235303 - MATERA+ - ERA-NET Plus on Materials Research
Name of the research project :
SIMUCOMP The research has been funded by the Walloon Region under the agreement no 1017232 (CT-EUC 2010-10-12) in the context of the ERA-NET +, Matera + framework.
Funders :
Service public de Wallonie : Direction générale opérationnelle de l'économie, de l'emploi et de la recherche - DG06
CE - Commission Européenne [BE]
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