Development of a new progressive damage model for woven fabric composites

Abstract

There is no native support for the modeling of woven fabric composites within Abaqus.A new approach has been implemented within Abaqus, which is shown to be robust and capable of modeling woven composites across a range of loading conditions.This approach predicted the bending modulus and displacement at failure of woven carbon-fiber composites under three-point bending within the standard deviation of experimental results.Under high-velocity impact loading, the critical perforation velocity of woven aramid panels was predicted to within 3% of the experimental results, while the back face deformation to within the experimental error.

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