Prediction of Damage Zone Growth in Composites Using Continuum Damage Mechanics
The continuum damage mechanics (CDM) approach is widely used to model damage in polymer matrix composite materials which are represented using the homogenized properties of the fiber and matrix constituents. CDM simplifies the problem of accounting for a large number of defects in a material by cons...
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7509 |