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Laminate failure analysis references

  1. M. Hyer, Mechanics of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials. McGraw-Hill, 1998.

  2. O. Daniel, I.M. Ishai, Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials. Oxford, 2nd ed., 2006.

  3. P. Hopkins, Benchmarks for Membrane and Bending Analysis of Laminated Shells, Part2: Strength Analysis, NAFEMS, 2005.

  4. Davila, C.G., Jaunky, N., and Goswami, S., “Failure Criteria for FRP Laminates in Plane Stress”, 44th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Norfolk, Virginia, 7–10 April 2003.

  5. Puck, A. and Schürmann, H., “Failure Analysis of FRP Laminates by Means of Physically Based Phenomenological Models”, Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 58, 1998, pp. 1045–1067.

  6. Puck A., Kopp, J. and Knops, M., “Guidelines for determination of the parameters in Puck’s action plane strength criterion”, Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 62, 2002, pp. 371–378.

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Laminate failure analysis nomenclature

Hill failure analysis (2D)

Hill failure analysis (3D)

Hoffman failure analysis (2D)

Hoffman failure analysis (3D)

Tsai-Wu failure analysis (2D)

Tsai-Wu failure analysis (3D)

Maximum stress failure analysis (2D)

Maximum stress failure analysis (3D)

Maximum strain failure analysis (2D)

Maximum strain failure analysis (3D)

LaRC02 failure analysis (2D)

Puck failure analysis (2D)

Von Mises yield and Von Mises ultimate failure analyses (2D and 3D)

Maximum transverse shear stress

Core ply material failure analysis

Interlaminar failure analysis (2D and 3D)

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