Modeling progressive damage in composites: A shear deformable element for ABAQUS(R) Academic Article

abstract

• The motivation for the present work is to enable a designer to model composite structures with plate/shell elements that capture a three-dimensional state of stress for damage progression. This is accomplished by incorporating a shear deformable composite element with built-in progressive damage capability into a commercial finite element program, ABAQUS, as a user element. The user element's ability to capture a three-dimensional state of stress with damage progression is displayed in two example problems of composite plates.

authors

• Ochoa, Ozden

published proceedings

• COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

author list (cited authors)

• Eason, T. G., & Ochoa, O. O.

citation count

• 17

complete list of authors

• Eason, TG||Ochoa, OO

publication date

• January 1996

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Composite Structures  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0263-8223(95)00136-0

start page

• 119

end page

• 128

volume

• 34

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0263-8223(95)00136-0