Delamination of Composite Laminate Plate by Sliding Load Mode

Abstract

The paper presents the mixed-mode delamination response of laminate plate made of two sublaminates. To this purpose a sliding load mode of delamination is proposed as failure model. A quasistatic rate-independent delamination problem of laminate plates with a finite thickness is considered. A rate-independent delamination model for a laminated Kirchhoff-Love plate is obtained. The failure model is implemented in ANSYS code to calculate the mixed-mode delamination response as energy release rate along the lamination front.