A thermomechanical constitutive theory for elastic composites with distributed damage. I. Theoretical development. II. Application to matrix cracking in laminated composites

DOI10.1016/0020-7683(87)90107-7zbMath0634.73108MaRDI QIDQ1097104

David H. Allen, C. E. Harris, S. E. Groves

Publication date: 1987

Published in: International Journal of Solids and Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7683(87)90107-7

zbMATH Keywords

strain; temperature; Taylor series; stress-strain relation; Helmholtz free energy; elastic composites; fiber-matrix debonding; matrix cracks; interlaminar cracking; locally averaged measures; material symmetry constraints; monotonic and cyclic fatigue loading; set of second-order tensor valued internal state variables; specific damage states; thermodynamics with internal state variables; thermomechanical constitution; three-dimensional tensor equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74A15: Thermodynamics in solid mechanics

74E30: Composite and mixture properties

74R99: Fracture and damage

74A20: Theory of constitutive functions in solid mechanics

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