TY  - CHAP
T3  - IUTAM Bookseries
TI  - A Coupled Contact and Decohesion Analysis of Laminated Beams
N2  - 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.
EP  - 156
A1  - Carpinteri, Alberto
A1  - Paggi, Marco
A1  - Zavarise, Giorgio
PB  - Springer
T2  - IUTAM Symposium on Computational Methods in Contact Mechanics
SN  - 978-1-4020-6405-0
N1  - Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Hannover, Germany, November 5?8, 2006
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6405-0_9
M1  - 3
AV  - none
Y1  - 2007///
ID  - eprints1950
SP  - 147
ER  -