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Compressive fracture of layered composites caused by internal instability

I.A. Guz1, M. Menshykova1,  and C. Soutis2     1University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK     2University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Abstract

This chapter revisits the exact three-dimensional (3-D) approach to study internal instability in layered media based on the model of a piecewise-homogeneous medium, in which the behaviour of each component of the material is described by the 3-D equations of solid mechanics. The results of this approach can be used as a benchmark for simplified models. The chapter begins with the development of a unified computational procedure for numerical realisation of the 3-D analytical method as applied to various constitutive equations of the ...

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