A. Tabiei et al., COMPRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF MODERATELY THICK PLATES WITH PROGRESSIVE DAMAGE, Mechanics of composite materials and structures, 4(3), 1997, pp. 281-295
An analytical methodology is presented to study the compressive behavi
or of moderately thick laminated plates under uniaxial compressive loa
ds. Nonlinear in-plane stress-strain relations for transverse and shea
r modulus are considered and two failure criteria are incorporated to
represent the progressive damage of Composite plate structures. The fi
nite-element analysis package, ABAQUS, with an updated Lagrangian form
ulation and large displacement and small strain kinematic relations, i
s employed in this study. Numerical analyses are conducted to demonstr
ate the effect of material nonlinearity, thickness-to-length ratio, an
d stacking sequence on the compressive behavior Comparisons between th
e maximum-strain failure criterion and Hashin's failure criterion are
presented.