An improved cohesive element for shell delamination analyses

DOI10.1002/NME.2848MaRDI QIDQ3164507zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 28 October 2010

Published in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.2848

zbMATH Keywords

cohesive zone modelcompositedelaminationfracturelevel set methodshell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Composite and mixture properties (74E30) Shells (74K25) Fracture and damage (74R99) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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• Overcoming the cohesive zone limit in composites delamination: modeling with slender structural elements and higher-order adaptive integration
• On the robustness of the stabilized finite element method for delamination analysis of composites using cohesive elements

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