Low velocity impact modeling in composite laminates capturing permanent indentation

Modelling low velocity impact induced damage in composite laminates

The paper presents recent progress on modelling low velocity impact induced damage in fibre reinforced composite laminates. It is important to understand the mechanisms of barely visible impact damage (BVID) and how it affects structural performance. To reduce labour intensive testing, the development of finite element (FE) techniques for simulating impact damage becomes essential and recent ef...

Analytical Prediction of Indentation and Low-Velocity Impact Responses of Fully Backed Composite Sandwich Plates

In this paper, static indentation and low velocity impact responses of a fully backed composite sandwich plate subjected to a rigid flat-ended cylindrical indenter/impactor are analytically investigated. The analysis is nonlinear due to nonlinear strain-displacement relation. In contrast to the existed analytical models for the indentation of composite sandwich plates, the stacking sequence of ...

Low Velocity Impact Damage Prediction in Laminated Composite Plates

In this paper, a finite element model is presented for the transient analysis of low velocity impact, and the impact induced damage in the composite plate subjected to low velocity impact is studied. The failure criteria suggested by Choi and Chang and the Tsai-Hill failure criteria are used for the prediction of the damage in the composite plate; then the effect of various parameters on the im...

Modeling of the Fatigue Life of Fiber Metal Laminates under Low Velocity Impact by Finite Element Method

In this study, first by using the finite element method, fatigue life of fiber metal laminates of Glare type subjected to impact was obtained and the numerical results of the model were compared with the experimental results. With regard to the very good matching between numerical and experimental results, then the results of the finite element model were generalized and expanded, and with usin...

A Comparison of Low-Velocity Impact and Quasi-Static Indentation