This paper reported the tensile failure strengths and damage procedure of composite laminate manufactured from the toughened-epoxy T800 prepreg at multi-scale levels. According to the exterior and interior distinction of each layer in laminate, the macro/mesoscale representative volume element (macro-RVE, meso-RVE) was first constructed, respectively. Then the micro-scale representative volume element (micro-RVE) with a hexagonal fiber-packed pattern in the interior zone of each layer in the laminate was finally determined on the principle of the same fiber volume fraction between the composite laminate and multi-scale RVEs. In the multi-RVEs analysis, the mechanical failure strengths of each scale model were transmitted from the last-scale model’s homogenization, such as the meso-RVE from micro-RVE and the macro-RVE from meso-RVE. Based on our previous report, the innovative multi-scale damage and post-damage models on the concept of the smear crack were improved fully and incorporated by user-defined material subroutines (UMATs), such as in the addition of multiple cracks co-coupled, which makes it predict the element damage procedure. The averaged mechanical responses with damage mechanism of multi-scale RVEs under tensile, compressive, or shear loadings were obtained wholly by the homogenization method. The macroscale tensile damage initiation and propagation procedure were analyzed in detail including their global/local responses, being extended to comparison with experimental results.
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