Overcoming the cohesive zone limit in the modelling of composites delamination with TUBA cohesive elements

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العنوان: Overcoming the cohesive zone limit in the modelling of composites delamination with TUBA cohesive elements
المؤلفون: Balducci, Giorgio Tosti, Chen, Boyang
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science, Mathematics - Numerical Analysis
الوصف: The wide adoption of composite structures in the aerospace industry requires reliable numerical methods to account for the effects of various damage mechanisms, including delamination. Cohesive elements are a versatile and physically representative way of modelling delamination. However, using their standard form which conforms to solid substrate elements, multiple elements are required in the narrow cohesive zone, thereby requiring an excessively fine mesh and hindering the applicability in practical scenarios. The present work focuses on the implementation and testing of triangular thin plate substrate elements and compatible cohesive elements, which satisfy C1-continuity in the domain. The improved regularity meets the continuity requirement coming from the Kirchhoff Plate Theory and the triangular shape allows for conformity to complex geometries. The overall model is validated for mode I delamination, the case with the smallest cohesive zone. Very accurate predictions of the limit load and crack propagation phase are achieved, using elements as large as 11 times the cohesive zone.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09895Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2403.09895
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv