Print Email Facebook Twitter Multiscale simulations for fracture prediction in composite materials: extension for anisotropic microstructures Title Multiscale simulations for fracture prediction in composite materials: extension for anisotropic microstructures Author SUAREZ MILLAN, RUBEN (TU Delft Aerospace Engineering) Contributor Turteltaub, S.R. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Aerospace Engineering Date 2018-12-13 Abstract With a fast increasing use of composite materials in aerostructures, industry demands design tools capable to reduce experimental tests while providing reliable data. Multiscale simulations enable to model and analyze fracture processes at the microscale, thus delivering higher accuracy and fundamental information about crack processes which phenomenological models cannot capture. This thesis studies fracture processes developing of composite laminates and the influence of anisotropy in fracture simulations of microstructural domains. Moreover, in the context of an in-house developed multiscale framework, several contributions have been done towards obtaining of Hill-Mandel compliant Effective Tractions Separation Laws. Namely, crack-path integration has been corrected and two energy-consistent homogenization methods have been proposed. Finally, results are given verifying the new methods, and it is found that periodic boundary conditions have an influence on the results upon crack localization. Subject multiscale methodscompositesfracture mechanicsAbaqusCZM To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a0c63ad9-ce02-4cc8-9264-c66d35ec8fa1 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 RUBEN SUAREZ MILLAN Files PDF MSc_Thesis_RubenSuarez_final.pdf 26.02 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a0c63ad9-ce02-4cc8-9264-c66d35ec8fa1/datastream/OBJ/view