Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials (Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering)

Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials, Second Edition provides the latest research in the field of composite materials, an area that has attracted a wealth of research, with significant interest in the areas of damage, fatigue, and failure. The book is fully updated, and is a comprehensive source of physics-based models for the analysis of progressive and critical failure phenomena in composite materials. It focuses on materials modeling while also reviewing treatments for analyzing failure in composite structures. Sections review damage development in composite materials such as generic damage and damage accumulation in textile composites and under multiaxial loading.

Part Two focuses on the modeling of failure mechanisms in composite materials, with attention given to fiber/matrix cracking and debonding, compression failure, and delamination fracture. Final sections examine the modeling of damage and materials response in composite materials, including micro-level and multi-scale approaches, the failure analysis of composite materials and joints, and the applications of predictive failure models.

• Provides a comprehensive source of physics-based models for the analysis of progressive and critical failure phenomena in composite materials
• Assesses failure and life prediction in composite materials
• Discusses the applications of predictive failure models such as computational approaches to failure analysis
• Covers further developments in computational analyses and experimental techniques, along with new applications in aerospace, automotive, and energy (wind turbine blades) fields
• Covers delamination and thermoplastic-based composites