IACM/ECCOMAS Congress 2008

Monday, June 30th 16:30 - 18:30
Virtual Fracture Testing of Composite Materials and Structures I
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium
Minisymposium organized by Javier LLorca and Brian Cox

Room: CAS3.1
MS154A

16:30 Practical Challenges in Formulating Virtual Tests
Brian N. Cox

16:50 A Three-Dimensional Damage Model for Composite Laminates
Pedro Camanho, Pere Maimí and Joan Andreu Mayugo Majó

17:10 Crack Initiation and Tunneling in Laminated Composites
Qingda Yang

17:30 Efficient Damage Tolerance Assessment of Composite Sandwich Structures
Luise Kärger, Anja Wetzel, Jens Baaran and Jan Teßmer

17:50 Multi-Disciplinary Analysis and Optimisation of Large Composite Structures in the Early Design Phase: Issues and Challenges
Xavier Mencaglia, Christophe Friebel, Hiromasa Kato, Yves-Henri Grunevald, Norbert Lidon and Frédéric Lani

Tuesday, July 1st 10:30 - 12:30
Virtual Fracture Testing of Composite Materials and Structures II
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium
Minisymposium organized by Javier LLorca and Brian Cox

Room: CAS3.1
MS154B

10:30 The Open Hole Tensile Test – A Challenge for Virtual Testing of Composites (Keynote Lecture)
Stephen Hallett and Michael Wisnom

11:00 Three-Dimensional Parallel Simulation of Dynamic Fracture and Fragmentation using a Hybrid DG/Cohesive Method (Keynote Lecture)
Andrew Seagraves, Antoine Jerusalem, Ludovic Noels and Raul Radovitzky

11:30 Virtual Testing of Composite Laminate Coupons
Sergio Sadaba, Carlos Gonzalez and Javier LLorca

11:50 Mesh Independent Modelling of Cracks and Delaminations in Composites with Holes
Endel Iarve, David Mollenhauer and Thomas Whitney

12:10 Mesolevel Representation of Splitting in Laminates
Frans van der Meer and L. J. Sluys

Tuesday, July 1st 14:00 - 16:00
Virtual Fracture Testing of Composite Materials and Structures III
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium
Minisymposium organized by Javier LLorca and Brian Cox

Room: CAS3.1
MS154C

14:00 Numerical Simulation of Damage in Polymeric Matrix Composites
Javier Segurado, Luis Canal and Javier LLorca

14:20 A New Approach to Model Non-Linear Shear Behaviour for Damage Analysis of Composite Laminates and Structures
Conor McCarthy and Ronan O‘Higgins

14:40 Simulation of Damage Evolution in Discontinuously Reinforced Composites: A Phase-Field Modeling Approach
Bulent Biner and Shen Yang Hu

15:00 A Novel, Multiscale High Fidelity Progressive Damage and Failure Modeling Approach for Laminated Fiber Reinforced Composites
Evan J. Pineda, Anthony M. Waas, Brett Bednarcyk and Craig Collier

15:20 An Elasto-Plasto-Damage Constitutive Ply Model for FEM-Analyses of Laminated Composite Structures
Thomas Flatscher, Clara Schuecker and Heinz Pettermann

15:40 Virtual Testbed for Numerical Homogenization of Elastic Behaviour and Damage Initiation in Bidirectional Composites
Michael Okereke, Nik Petrinic, Jens Wiegand, Robert Gerlach and Clive Siviour

Tuesday, July 1st 16:30 - 18:30
Virtual Fracture Testing of Composite Materials and Structures IV
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium
Minisymposium organized by Javier LLorca and Brian Cox

Room: CAS3.1
MS154D

16:30 Cohesive Zone Description and Fracture of Ceramics subjected to Environmentally Assisted Slow Crack Growth
Marcos Romero de la Osa, Rafael Estevez, Christian Olagnon, Jerome Chevalier, Lionel Vignoud and Christophe Tallaron

16:50 Superposition of Softening Laws to Account for Multiple Toughening Mechanisms
Carlos Dávila, Pedro Camanho and Albert Turon

17:10 Simulation until Failure of a Stiffened Panel with Progressive Damage and Delamination
Albert Turon, Joan Andreu Mayugo Majó, Pere Maimi, Norbert Blanco, Pedro Ponces Camanho and Josep Costa

17:30 Growth of Surface Flaws on Glass Fibres during High Temperature Exposure
Stefanie Feih, Zenka Mathys and Adrian Mouritz

17:50 In-Situ Characterization of Interface Delamination by a New Miniature Mixed-Mode Bending Setup
Murthy Kolluri, M.H.L Thissen, Johan Hoefnagels, J.A.W. van Dommelen and M.G.D Geers

18:10 On the Evaluation of the Young’s Modulus for a Laminated Periodic Composite Structure based on Auxetic Materials
Stefania Donescu, Veturia Chiroiu and Ana Maria Mitu