Abstract: Effective stress-strain relations for inelastic unidirectional composites developed previously are used to derive the gross constitutive behavior of inelastic laminates in which every lamina is ...

Abstract: The transient problem of arrest of a rapidly propagating Mode III crack has been investigated for a crack which initially propagates in an elastic solid, and then enters a region of viscoplastic ...

Abstract: A new micromechanics model is presented which is capable of accurately estimating both the effective elastic constants of a periodic multiphase composite and the local stress and strain fields ...

Abstract: An approximate 3-dimensional analysis to study the effects of a system of transverse and longitudinal matrix cracks in cross-ply laminates is given. The method considers a repeating unit cell ...