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P. LADEV&E
Laboratoire de Mecanique et Technologie, ENS Cachan, CNRS, Universitb Paris 6,
61 avenue du President Wilson, 94235 Cachan Cedex, France
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80 P. LADEV~ZE
Ei=Ey 1 -s(-cl,)+
I 1 , 3.3. Damage evolution law
For static loadings, we have
where a is a material constant and (.)+ the positive
part.
a’ I, = Ad (yd~,~yd’~, 7 Q t);
if d<l;d=l otherwise
1
xo,,o*2+(022):+(-622):+o:2 d’=b’d if d’<l
--
E! E: GO12
and Y,. < Y:; d’ = 1 otherwise.
where cp is a material function defined such that
a2EDla2a,, = I/E:. YO. Y,, YL, b are damage characteristic constants of
The transverse rigidity in compression is supposed the material. Hence Yd and Y,, appear as the quan-
to be equal to Efj, one obtains the following energy tities which govern the damage increase and then the
for the damaged material transverse fracture of the single layer. Two different
damage mechanisms are introduced. The first one is
a progressive damage mode related to the micro-
cracking of the matrix and the deterioration of the
fibre-matrix interface. The second mode is a brittle
one; it concerns the deterioration of the fibre-matrix
. interfaces submitted to a transverse tension stress c22.
Damage computational method for composite structures 81
k (Y, + b Y#)"2
- Y1'2(d)
”
( cijc
d =
yw
C >+
40 I* o TestC
if d<l; d=l otherwise
2or - Identified curve
P (%I
Fig. 2. Hardening curve for T300-914.
1 . 512
if d’ < 1; d’ = 1 otherwise, if2 = - -. t; 20.
2’R+R,,’
where n, n’, k, k’ are material parameters. This An example of such a hardening curve is given, for
modelling, which introduces delay effects, differs T300-914, in Fig. 2.
from the previous one only if the damage rates are
very high. It includes the following physical property: 4. INTERFACE MODELLINC
+k;(l-d2)+k;(l-d,)
4,
1 *
y
d
yd2=k;(
=’ @33X
2k0(1 -C+
42
1 -d2)2’
Yd’=/cp(l -dj
4,
P. LADEV~ZE
=.,
--__
500
uL (MPa)
evolution is governed by
I I I I I
c
-0.04 -0.02 0 0.02 0.04
Fig. 5. Analysis of [- 12,781, laminate (T300-914).
where y, and y2 are coupling constants. In term of
delamination modes, the first term is associated with Then, we have
the first opening mode, the other two with the second
and third modes. The damage evolution law is
defined through a material function w, such that
d, = y, o(Y) if dl c 1; d, = 1 otherwise
0
'",I"'
a1
I KJ2YZ
2.
a2 1 dr
P, W,, , [67,5; 22, Aa, [ f 22,%,, 1f 1%. The cm-
parison with experimental tests is good except for the
last two tests (see, for example, Fig. 4).
uL (MPa) For the two last stacking sequences, the compari-
250 ----Test
son is satisfying for the curves, but not for the rupture
-Model
200 + Failure prediction P
t
a uIx104
Fig. 7. Initiation delamination problem and propagation problem.
values (see Fig. 5). The rupture experimental values grow does not correspond to the maximum load.
are lower than those given by our modelling. This fact Such a simplified delamination approach has been
is not surprising because the plane stress assumption applied to more complex situations [15]. Let us con-
is no longer correct. Such a damage delamination sider the structure defined by Fig. 8 where a tension
mode is taken into account due to the complete loading is applied. The edge effects are the only
damage modelling including the interface modelling. ones to be computed taking the interface damage
modelhng into account. The results are given in Figs
7. A SIMPLIFIED DELAMINATION ANALYSIS
9 and 10.
First there appears a crack in the central
The computation is done with the following interface and after a certain tension load, two new
hypotheses: the single layer is elastic and the interface cracks in the interface (+ 30, - 30). All these cracks
is also elastic but can be damaged. The material grow together until rupture. These first results have
function o(Y) is considered linear been obtained with a certain range of parameters.
Comparisons with experimental [16] results are in
agreement.
o(Y)=;,
c
where Y, is a material constant. Then, the interface 8. RUPTURE COMPUTATION: POSSIBILITIES AND
model depends on three material constants: the coup- COMPUTATIONAL DIFFICULTIES
ling coefficients I,, y2 and Y,. Let us consider a DCB The rupture phenomenon happens after two
specimen constituted with two layers as shown in phases. In the first step, the microvoid and micro-
Fig. 6. A pure mode I loading is imposed. crack growth is nearly uniform: it is the initiation
The delamination length is a and the thickness of stage. From the critical point (or from a point
the single layer is h. Under the plane strain assump- nearby) the strain and also the damages become more
tion, 2D calculations are carried out using the finite localized; a macrocrack appears and grows until
element displacement method. For a P h, Fig. 7 gives becoming unstable. If the first stage is well described
the computed critical value of the energy release rate due to this damage approach, the full simulation of
as a function of the delamination length u. The the rupture leads to severe difficulties. The goal is
critical value corresponds to d = 1 at the tip of the to build up a true rupture theory for composite
delamination front. It remains constant and the value structures.
which is G, = YJ2 can be also determined by a
theoretical analysis. Then, fracture mechanics
appears to be an approximation of damage mech-
anics for large delamination area. Starting with a = 0,
one obtains the load displacement curve given in
Fig. 7.
It is interesting to notice that the initiation point,
i.e. the point where the delamination front begins to
F F
F t
IL
Fig. 8. Delamination analysis of a tension test. Fig. 9. Delamination pattern.
84 P. LADE&E
nterface 30,-30: $
1.0
rltelface -30.90: *
ntetface 90.90: C F 0.8
0.6
3 : (30,-30) crack t
3’: (90,90) crack
I I 1 1 , ‘IO-* a,a’
0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
Figure 11 shows these difficulties considering a been obtained in [29]. The mesh dependence is very
damage macromodelling, but not a damage meso- important during the second stage of the rupture
modelling. It concerns a concrete structure and has process (after the critical point). The load-
i mesha 12
“;” I
,
mesh b
meshc 10
I a
I
i 4
0 1 2 3 4 6
-~~~~n
Fig. 13. Delamination analysis.
80 1.0 -
70
0.6 -
60
50
d 0.6 -
40
30 0.4 -
20
10
0.2-
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