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In the present work, interest is centered on the theory of fracture and practical approaches to reliability estimation of unidirectional composite materials which are based on it. Fracture mechanics is considered not as a theory of macrocracks but as mechanics of fracture mechanisms of the composites with allowance made for probability estimation. A model of composite material with fibers eliminated from the carrying scheme and parameters specific to the stress-strain-damage state (SSDS) was considered. According to the model, during loading, self-accelerated energy rise is accounted for by structural damages growth — the catastrophe takes place. The model allows us to calculate the critical stress. The composites redistribute forces from overloading zones to neighboring ones by microstructural deformations and damages. It is the effect of reservation of carrying ability. Due to this effect, low-value probability of fracture is sufficiently less for the composite than for homogeneous materials. The approach allows us to evaluate the reliability function for both static loading and fatigue.
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Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 539–548, July–August, 1996.
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Koksharov, I.I. An estimation of reliability of unidirectional composites by catastrophe theory. Mech Compos Mater 32, 374–380 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02254751
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02254751