Abstract: Tensile and shear testing to final fracture of large-diameter, fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite round bars is often challenging because local stress triaxiality near the gripping ends can precipitate premature ...

Abstract: In this paper, a new type of cohesive element that employs multiple subdomain integration (MSDI) for improved cohesive stress integration accuracy of bonded plate/shell elements has been formulated. ...

Abstract: Three displacement functions are introduced to decompose three displacement components so that the three-dimensional equations of motion of a transversely isotropic body are uncoupled. Expanding ...

Abstract: In this paper, the conceptual, experimental, and computational challenges associated with virtual testing have been discussed and recent advances that address these challenges have been summarized. ...

Abstract: As part of the quest to add the infraply scale to high-fidelity simulations of damage evolution in composites, a model of the phenomenon of delamination jumping across transverse plies is formulated by using nonlinear ...

Abstract: Based on three-dimensional elastic theory, three components of displacement are expanded by orthotropic series. A second-order ordinary differential equation set is then obtained that can be solved by Frobenius Method. ...