Abstract
It is known that delaminations are the most frequent causes of failure in laminated structures, particularly under compressive loads. The presence of delaminations leads to a reduction in the overall strength of the structure. In addition, they tend to grow rapidly under operating loads, causing a further reduction in structural strength, and finally, leading to fatal structural failure. In this paper, a simple method is derived to estimate the pointwise energy release rate distribution along the delamination front based on the 3-dimensional equivalent domain integral [1].
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Naganarayana, B.P., Atluri, S.N. (1995). Equivalent Domain Integral for Delamination Growth Estimation. In: Atluri, S.N., Yagawa, G., Cruse, T. (eds) Computational Mechanics ’95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79654-8_416
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