Modeling progressive damage in composites: a shear deformable element for ABAQUS~®

摘要

The motivation for the present work is to enable a designer to model composite structures with plate/shell elements that capture a three-dimensional state of stress for damage progression. This is accomplished by incorporating a shear deformable composite element with built-in progressive damage capability into a commercial finite element program, ABAQUS~®, as a user element. The user element's ability to capture a three-dimensional state of stress with damage progression is displayed in two example problems of composite plates.