relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1950/
title: A Coupled Contact and Decohesion Analysis of Laminated Beams
creator: Carpinteri, Alberto
creator: Paggi, Marco
creator: Zavarise, Giorgio
subject: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
description: The problem of interface decohesion in laminated beams is addressed with reference to the double cantilever beam (DCB) geometry. The paper deals with the analysis of the influence of non-uniform bonding properties or interfacial defects on the crack propagation process and its stability. In spite of the relative simplicity of the considered case study, which is under pure Mode I deformation, a contact problem takes place due to the decohesion. The occurrence of contact makes the problem highly non-linear, since the extension of the contact area is a priori unknown. The finite element method with a generalized interface constitutive law is used to enforce the contact constraint along the interface and to model the progress of the delamination process.
publisher: Springer
date: 2007
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Carpinteri, Alberto and Paggi, Marco and Zavarise, Giorgio  A Coupled Contact and Decohesion Analysis of Laminated Beams.   In:  IUTAM Symposium on Computational Methods in Contact Mechanics.   IUTAM Bookseries, 3 .  Springer, pp. 147-156.  ISBN 978-1-4020-6405-0      (2007)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6405-0_9
relation: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6405-0_9