Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials

Professor Ramesh Talreja is Tenneco Endowed Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He has published extensively in the fields of damage mechanics, fatigue, and failure of composite materials. Professor Janis Varna is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and a Leading Researcher at Riga Technical University, Latvia. He has over 30 years of research experience in damage, fatigue, and failure of composite materials with particular emphasis on micro mechanics of fiber/matrix interaction in composites, damage evolution as well as on development of reliable test methodologies for short fiber composites and for fiber/matrix interface characterization.

1. Composite materials: constituents, architecture, and generic damage2. Fatigue damage mechanisms3. Damage accumulation in textile composites4. Damage accumulation under multiaxial fatigue loading5. Matrix and fiber–matrix interface cracking in composite materials6. Fiber–matrix debonding in composite materials: Transverse loading7. Fiber–matrix debonding in composite materials: Axial loading8. Evolution of multiple matrix cracking9. Fiber failure and debonding in composite materials/10. Compression failure of composite laminates11. Delamination fractures in composite materials12. Thermoelastic constants of damaged laminates: COD- and CSD-based methods13. Microlevel approaches to modeling of damage in composite materials: Generalized plane strain analysis14. A multiscale approach to modeling of composite damage15. Multiscale failure assessment of composite laminates16. Modeling the crack initiation in unidirectional laminates under multiaxial fatigue loading17. Incorporating manufacturing defects in damage and failure analysis18. Damage simulations in composite structures in the presence of stress gradients19. Failure models for composite joints: An approach based on singular stress states20. Computational analysis of notched composites21. Variational approach to modelling of damage