Guagliano M., Aliabadi M.H. Fracture and Damage of Composites

WIT Press, 2006. 288 p. — ISBN: 1853126691.Advances in Fracture MechanicsComposites offer great promise as light and strong materials whose uses are no longer confined to high performance structures. Their major advantages, which are true for almost all composites, are increased stiffness with respect to homogeneous materials and in increased strength to crack extension. However, their application is still limited by the lack of complete knowledge about their strength under different load conditions and the prediction of the damage evolution and the way cracks develop in these materials is still an important topic of research. This book contains recent developments and results in composite materials science, including contributions from well-known researchers in this specialist field. Both polymeric and metal matrix composites are included and investigated with experimental, analytical and numerical analyses.Compressive strength of laminated composites: on application of the continuum fracture theory
Macroscopic crack propagation due to stress-corrosion cracking in unidirectional GRP composites: micromechanical theory and its application
Damage mechanisms in pultruded unidirectional fiber reinforced composites under static and fatigue loads
Fatigue damage of particle reinforced metal matrix composites
Modeling and prediction of the mechanical properties of woven laminates by the finite element method
Boundary element analysis of fracture failure in anisotropic composite laminates
Analysis of piezoelectric composite laminates with edge delamination
Analysis of interface cracks with contact in composites by 2D BEM
Boundary element assessment of three-dimensional bimaterial interface cracks