ID 1160

 

Real-time Detection and Explicit Fracture Simulation of

Delamination in Composite Laminates under Impact Loading

 

 

K. Minnaar and M. Zhou

School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA 30332-0405, U.S.A.

 

Keywords: composite laminate, low velocity impact, real time detection, laser interferometer, cohesive finite element model