A review on failure mechanisms and analysis of multidirectional laminates

Abstract

Advanced composite materials have excellent mechanical and physical properties, which are wide, used in aerospace, automobile, biomedical, recreational (sport), and structural industries. Because composite materials have high stiffness and strength, fatigue failure and corrosion resistance, and low density compared with meals and metals alloy. But, composite materials' properties became poor performance due to manufacturing defects, fiber-matrix stacking sequences, fiber orientations, and other factors. These factors lead to multidirectional (MD) composite laminates failure. This paper presents a review of recent work on failure analysis of multidirectional composite laminate from the last two decades of published researches. This review paper reported MD composite laminates' failure mechanism at various failure criteria, such as maximum strain/stress failure criteria, quadratic failure theory (Tsai-Wu theory), Tsai-Hill criteria, Hashin criteria, Puck failure criteria, and others criteria. Finally, this paper presents a meaningful conclusion.