ID 1513

 

Modelling Damage Development in Carbon/Epoxy

Overheight Compact Tension (OCT) Specimens

 

 

Anthony Floyd, Jason Mitchell, Reza Vaziri and Anoush Poursartip

Composites Group, Departments of Civil Engineering and
Metals and Materials Engineering, The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4

 

Keywords: damage, strain-softening, constitutive model, OCT test, crack growth, continuum damage mechanics