A computational framework for multiscale analysis of laminated composite plates

摘要: Advanced structural applications are requiring ever increasing levels of performance at both the structure and material point scales. Increasingly laminated composite materials are being applied as the material/structural combination of choice to achieve viable realizations of these advanced concepts. In order to achieve the requisite levels of performance, the composite materials composing the structure, and thus the laminated structure itself, are being required to operate in regimes dominated by history-dependent phenomena. It has been shown that the presence of history-dependent phenomena can significantly drive the behavior of a laminated structure away from that observed in strictly elastic materials and structures Gilat and Aboudi [1994, 1995]. In order to design laminated structures that can safely operate in these regimes it is necessary that the evolution of the history-dependent processes …