Volume 5: Damage in Composites

Preface
Series Preface

• Effects of Friction, Geometry and Fixture Compliance on the Perceived Toughness from Three and Four Point Bend End Notched Flexure Tests

B. D. Davidson and X. Sun

• Mode I Fracture Toughness of Advanced Polymers in a Cryotank Environment

M. M. Pavlick and W. S. Johnson

• Discrete Spring Model for Predicting Delamination Growth in Z-Fiber Reinforced DCB Specimens

J. G. Ratcliffe and T. K. O’brien

• Modeling of the Compressive Failure of Plain Weave Composites

C.-F. Yen, B. A. Cheeseman, C. P. R. Hoppel, B. A. Gama and J. W. Gillespie, Jr.

• Numerical Simulation of the Improvement Characteristics of the Compression after Impact Strength of CFRP Laminates by Through the Thickness Stitching

Yoshimura, K. Bae and N. Takeda

• Test Methods for Determining Temperature Dependent Material Properties and Residual Stress Modeling for Laminated Composites

L. Speriatu, W. Schulz and P. Ifju

• A Direct Micromechanical Failure Analysis of Textile Composites

R. L. Karkkainen, B. V. Sankar and J. T. Tzeng

• 3D Mixed-Mode Delamination Fracture Criteria—An Experimentalist’s Perspective

J. R. Reeder

• Post-Peak Response of Braided Textile Composites under Compressive Loads

S. Song, A. M. Waas, K. W. Shahwan, X. Xiao and O. Faruque

• Fracture Toughness of MDF and Other Materials with Fiber Bridging

N. Matsumoto and J. A. Nairn

• FEM Modeling on Interfacial Debonding of Single Short Fiber Composite with Elasto-plastic Matrix

Y. Pan and A. A. Pelegri

• Multiphysics Paths from Durability to Prognosis of Composite Structures

K. Reifsnider, P. Fazzino and P. Majumdar

• The Trade-Off Between Damage and Strength: Why Weaker May Be Stronger

M. R. Wisnom

• Thermo-oxidative Degradation in High Temperature Polymer Composites for Advanced Aircraft

S. Roy and S. Singh

• Influence of Impact Damage on Carbon-Epoxy Stiffener Crippling

D. Jegley

• Impact, Damage and Penetration Modeling of Thick-Section Composites Using LS-Dyna MAT162

A. Gama, T. A. Bogetti and J. W. Gillespie, Jr.

• A Non-Local Approach to Simulation of Damage in Laminated Composites

A. Forghani, N. Zobeiry, R. Vaziri, A. Poursartip and F. Ellyin

Index