Print Email Facebook Twitter Cohesive zone and interfacial thick level set modeling of the dynamic double cantilever beam test of composite laminate Title Cohesive zone and interfacial thick level set modeling of the dynamic double cantilever beam test of composite laminate Author Liu, Y. (TU Delft Applied Mechanics) van der Meer, F.P. (TU Delft Applied Mechanics) Sluys, Lambertus J. (TU Delft Materials- Mechanics- Management & Design) Department Materials- Mechanics- Management & Design Date 2018-08-01 Abstract The mode-I interlaminar fracture toughness of composite laminates under different loading rates can be measured by the double cantilever beam (DCB) test. It is observed from the DCB test of a unidirectional PEEK/carbon composite laminate that as the loading rate increases from quasi-static to dynamic range: (1) delamination crack growth exhibits a transition from stable to unstable (“stick/slip”) and back to a stable type; (2) the interlaminar fracture toughness is not constant as the loading rate increases. In this paper, two numerical approaches are used to reproduce the experimental observations: a cohesive zone model (CZM) and the interfacial thick level set (ITLS) model. CZM simulations with rate-independent and rate-dependent cohesive laws are carried out. A new version of the ITLS is introduced with a phenomenological relation between crack speed and energy release rate. The simulation results of the CZM and the ITLS model are compared with the real DCB test data to evaluate the capability of these two types of models. It is found that the used CZM can reproduce rate-dependence of the fracture energy, but not the stick/slip behavior. The ITLS can capture the stick/slip behavior, but needs different parameter sets for different loading rates. Subject Cohesive zone modelCrack arrestDouble cantilever beamRate dependencyThick level set To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:52b60b9d-5487-4898-8589-1d92a69c8200 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tafmec.2018.07.004 Embargo date 2020-07-20 ISSN 0167-8442 Source Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 96, 617-630 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 Y. Liu, F.P. van der Meer, Lambertus J. Sluys Files PDF draftpaper_revised_clean.pdf 994.11 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:52b60b9d-5487-4898-8589-1d92a69c8200/datastream/OBJ/view