Analysis of Cracks with Bridged Zone of Large Scale

Abstract

ABSTRACT. The direct boundary element method is used to analyze of the stress–strain state and fracture parameters of fiber–reinforced and layered composites with bridged interface cracks under transient thermal and mechanical loadings. It is supposed that unbroken fibers make up a bridged zone along of whole or part of a delamination region between layers of composite materials. For modelling purposes a bridged zone is considered as a part of a crack between joined materials and supposed that distributed spring–like bonds with given nonlinear deformation law link and constrain crack surfaces. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)