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Finite Fracture Mechanics: A Useful Tool to Analyze Cracking Mechanisms in Composite Materials

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The coupled criterion is a finite fracture mechanics approach which couples an energy condition and a stress condition to predict crack initiation at stress concentration points. It is here used to study various cracking mechanisms in composite materials at different scales. The paper focuses on edge delamination at the mesoscale and also considers crack nucleation in the vicinity of a matrix crack at the microscale.

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    E. Martin

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    D. Leguillon

  3. LBMS, ENSTA Bretagne, Univ. Brest, Brest, France

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Martin, E., Leguillon, D., Carrère, N. (2017). Finite Fracture Mechanics: A Useful Tool to Analyze Cracking Mechanisms in Composite Materials. In: Beaumont, P., Soutis, C., Hodzic, A. (eds) The Structural Integrity of Carbon Fiber Composites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46120-5_19

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