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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 55
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper IX.2

Development of an Effective Numerical Tool for Predicting the Compressive Behaviour of Delaminated Composite Panels

A. Riccio*, P. Perugini+ and F. Scaramuzzino*

*Department of Aerospace, Second University of Naples, Aversa, Italy
+CIRA (Italian Aerospace Research Centre), Capua, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Riccio, P. Perugini, F. Scaramuzzino, "Development of an Effective Numerical Tool for Predicting the Compressive Behaviour of Delaminated Composite Panels", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Computational Structural Mechanics", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 163-174, 1998. doi:10.4203/ccp.55.9.2
Abstract
In this work, a numerical tool was developed to take into account the fundamental phenomena that rule the compressive behaviour of composite panels with trough-the-width and embedded delaminations.

The Modified Virtual Crack Closure Technique (MVCCT) was applied to evaluate the delamination growth phenomenon. Stable and unstable propagations was considered in our analyses; the latter required some modifications in the numerical non-linear algorithm used in the analyses.

First of all, a comparison with experimental data was carried on to test the effectiveness of the numerical tool; then a sensitivity analysis was introduced to underline the influence of trough-the-width and embedded delamination's position along the thickness and their growth on the compressive behaviour.

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