Development of Numerical Constitutive Models for Carbon-Carbon Composites

摘要

A three-dimensional progressive failure analysis of carbon-carbon composites was developed. To facilitate the study, various mesh generators and graphical pre- and post-processing tools were developed. These tools were used to study carbon-carbon during cool-down from processing temperature and subsequent mechanical loads. This grant was tightly integrated with the AASERT grant F49620-93-1-0471, which ended last year. The student supported under the AASERT grant, Clint Chapman, has graduated (and is employed) with a Ph.D. This final year of the subject grant has been invested in documenting our efforts in the open literature and assembling documentation for the tools developed by Dr. Chapman so they could be used in subsequent projects.