Abstract
The reliability of numerical simulation of crack growth in a laminate glass-epoxy composite under mixed-mode loading by opening (mode I) and shear (mode II) of an interlayer crack is verified. According to the experimentally determined standard (DCB and ENF) and nonstandard (SLB and OLB) methods, the values of the parameters of interlayer crack resistance under individual and mixed-mode loading modes I and II calculated the exponent in the Benzeggagh-Kenane equation as a material constant of the laminate epoxy glass composite. Using this parameter and the ANSYS software package, within the framework of linear elastic fracture mechanics and the method of virtual crack closure, numerical finite element modeling of the growth of interlayer cracks in samples of a laminate glass-epoxy composite of the SLB and OLB types was carried out under a mixed-mode loading with a different fraction of modes. With the optimal number of elements in the finite element mesh per given length of the crack growth trajectory, numerical simulation provides sufficient accuracy of calculations of the limit load of the beginning of crack growth with a minimum amount of calculations and good agreement between the experimentally determined and calculated crack resistance parameters.
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