Numerical Modelling of Failure in Advanced Composite Materials

Pedro P. Camanho is a professor at the department of mechanical engineering of the University of Porto. His main research interests are the mechanics of deformation and fracture of polymer composite materials, and new concepts for advanced composite materials for aerospace applications such as hybrid, variable stiffness and ultra-thin composites. Professor Camanho has been a visiting scientist at NASA-Langley Research Center since 2000, was a visiting scientist at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, and has coordinated several research projects funded by the European Space Agency, Airbus, NASA, Daimler AG, Aernnova, European Union and US Air Force. He was the recipient of the 2006 NASA H.J.E. Reid Award for Outstanding Scientific Paper, the 2005 Young Researcher in Applied and Computational Mechanics Award from the Portuguese Association of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics, and the 2005-2009 Engineering Fracture Mechanics Most Cited Articles Award. He has published over 70 papers in international peer reviewed journals and is a member of the Council of the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH). Stephen R. Hallett is Professor in Composite Structures in the Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science at the University of Bristol, UK. One of his main research interests is the development of physically based damage models for composite materials and their deployment for new and challenging applications. He has worked with on research projects for many of the major aerospace companies and is Technical Director for the Rolls-Royce Composites University Technology Centre at the University of Bristol. He has published over 70 scientific papers in international peer reviewed journals.

• Part One: Numerical modelling approaches to interlaminar failure in advanced composite materials1 The virtual crack closure technique for modelling interlaminar failure and delamination in advanced composite materials2 Modelling delamination with cohesive interface elements3 Interface elements for fatigue-driven delaminations in advanced composite materials 4 A level set model for delamination in advanced composite materialsPart Two: Numerical modelling approaches to intralaminar failure in advanced composite materials5 Three-dimensional invariant-based failure criteria for transversely isotropic fibre-reinforced composites6 An overview of continuum damage models used to simulate intra-laminar failure mechanisms in advanced composite materials7 Numerical modelling of matrix cracking and intralaminar failure in advanced composite materials 8 Fibre failure modellingPart Three: Advanced numerical algorithms for modelling and simulation of failure in advanced composite materials9 Mesh independent matrix cracking and delamination modelling in advanced composite materials10 A new augmented finite element method (A-FEM) for analysis of failure in advanced composite materials11 Isogeometric modelling 12 Peridynamics for analysis of failure in advanced composite materials 13 Multiscale modeling of the response and life prediction of composite materialsPart Four: Engineering and scientific applications of numerical modelling for analysis of failure in advanced composite materials14 Micro-mechanical failure analysis of advanced composite materials15 Computational micromechanics strategies for the analysis of failure in unidirectional composites16 Numerical modelling for predicting failure in textile composites17 Multi-scale modelling for predicting fracture behaviour in through-thickness reinforcedlaminates18 Numerical modelling of impact and damage tolerance in aerospace composite structures19 Strength prediction methods for composite structures: ensuring aeronautical design office requirements