Fracture Analysis of Clamped Tapered Beam Specimen under Static Loading by Regularized Extended Finite Element Method in Abaqus Implementation
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The Regularized eXtended Finite Element Method (Rx-FEM) with Abaqus implementation is introduced and applied to modeling fracture in laminated composites involving initiation and evolution of matrix cracking and delamination, their interaction and delamination migration. The proposed implementation in Abaqus consists of a technique for modeling the mesh-independent transverse matrix cracks within each ply as well as the delaminations between plies. A mixed-mode cohesive constitutive model is applied for delamination and matrix cracking evolution. The capabilities of the proposed implementation are validated by comparing with the experimental data of the clamped tapered beam sub-element specimen under static loading, which was designed by NASA to study the matrix crack and delamination initiation, propagation, and subsequent crack-induced delamination migration from one ply interface to another. The simulation of the failure path accurately captures significant characteristics of the sequence of damage events observed in the experiments, and the predictions show a good quantitative agreement for stiffness, peak failure load, and the delamination migration location.
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OpenAlex topics: Mechanical Behavior of Composites · Numerical methods in engineering · Fatigue and fracture mechanics
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