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Progressive Failure Analysis Of Composite Materials Using The Puck Failure Criteria, Karan Kodagali
Progressive Failure Analysis Of Composite Materials Using The Puck Failure Criteria, Karan Kodagali
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Fiber reinforced composites have been used in various engineering structures and applications especially in naval, automotive, aeronautical and sports industries. These composite materials generally exhibit brittle damage behavior. The anisotropy in the material and different kinds of failure mechanisms make it difficult to accurately characterize the behavior of composite materials. The present work aims to verify and apply the Puck Failure Criteria using the commercially available finite element package ABAQUS by writing a user-material subroutine in FORTRAN. The model is implemented with different post failure degradation schemes.
In the present work, the progressive failure on composite materials in analyzed using …