Numerical Determination of Delamination Onset in Laminated Symmetric DCB Specimen

Shokrieh, M. M.; Heidari-Rarani, M.; Rahimi, S. Rahimi

Numerical Determination of Delamination Onset in Laminated Symmetric DCB Specimen

Document Type : Persian

Authors

¹ Professor, Composite Research Laboratory, Center of Excellence in Experimental Solid Mechanics and Dynamics, Mechanical engineering department, Iran University of Science and Technology.

² Ph.D. Student, Composite Research Laboratory, Center of Excellence in Experimental Solid Mechanics and Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering Department, Iran University of Science and Technology

³ M.Sc. Student, Composite Research Laboratory, Center of Excellence in Experimental Solid Mechanics and Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering Department, Iran University of Science and Technology

Abstract

In this study, a novel numerical method is proposed for determination of mode-I interlaminar fracture toughness, GIc, in multi-directional (MD) double cantilever beam (DCB) specimens using fracture properties of unidirectional DCB specimens. Two factors, β and Dc are defined to minimize the undesirable effects on strain energy release rate. β describes the difference between maximum and average of SERR along the delamination front. Dcshows the bending-bending coupling of laminated composites. β and Dc factors are not independent factors because both of them affect on distribution of SERR. As a result, by 3D modeling of DCB specimen in ANSYS software, limitation of β is determined so that the fracture toughness of MD DCB specimen with 0//0 interface can be predicted from toughness of unidirectional DCB specimen. Numerical results shows that fracture toughness predicted with the proposed approach is in good agreement with available experiments in the literature for β < 20%.

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