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Relation between plasticity and damage in studying the frictional behaviour between two composite laminates.

Submitted by nizanth on

Hi all, 

     I want to model mode II composite delamination incorporating frictional effects. I found papers by Alfano and Sacco (2006) and few others also. My question is that to model such a situation are :

1) should I incorporate plasticity or damage analysis or both? What is the rite approach? 

2) In each of these cases, do I need to have a plastic yield function and damage surface ??  

Poster Abstracts - accepted until Feb 19th for Nanobrücken 2016

Submitted by Douglas Stauffer on

Nanobrücken 2016: A Nanomechanical Testing Workshop & Hysitron User Meeting will take place March 2nd - 4th, 2016 at the INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken, Germany. This will be the 6th edition of the now-annual Nanobrücken workshop series. 

As in the past, the workshop is open to all aspects of nanomechanical and nanotribological testing, including biomechanical, in-situ experimentation and theory/simulation.

PhD and Postdoctoral Positions in Multiscale Modeling and Experiments of Ballistic Fibers and Composites at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials

Submitted by sockalsi on

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral and a PhD studentship position at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials (CCM) focused on multiscale modeling and experiments of high performance ballistic fibers and composites