RESTRAN: Residual Strength Analysis of Impact Damaged Composite Laminates. Volume II: User's Manual.

摘要

A general predictive methodology for determining residual strength in impact damaged composite laminates has been developed and incorporated into a computer code designated RESTRAN (REsidual STRength ANalysis). RESTRAN is a finite element based design tool that can analyze composite structures with arbitrary three-dimensional (3-D) geometry, loading and support conditions, material properties, and initial material and delamination damage. Material failure modes are predicted using a robust suite of failure criteria and damage laws. Structural failure due to sequential sublaminate buckling of delaminated layers is also accounted for. A progressive failure analysis is performed until ultimate structural failure is predicted, thereby yielding an estimate of the residual strength. This report contains a user's manual for the RESTRAN program with complete descriptions of input statements and program output. Several examples are shown to illustrate the use of the RESTRAN computer code.