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Dynamic Fracture Analysis of Sandwich Composites with Face Sheet/Core Debond by the Finite Element Method

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Numerical simulations using the finite element analyses within the code ABAQUS™ are used to study a dynamic fracture behaviour developing along the face sheet/core interface in sandwich panels. First, a virtual fracture test—the double cantilever sandwich beam subjected to uneven bending moments is simulated. In such analyses, the dynamic energy release rates and near-tip displacement and stress fields are extracted from finite element models developed within the two-dimensional elastodynamic theory and cohesive elements. These parameters are a basis for understanding the face sheet/core interface fracture in sandwich materials. Important computed results are that the inertia effects change the behaviour of fracture debonding parameters. Moreover, the analyses demonstrated the capability and the reliability of the finite element modelling technique for solving dynamic fracture mechanics problems. Also simulated and discussed is the dynamic interface crack progression in the sandwich specimen. In the second part of the work, the computational models are modified for analysing dynamic fracture of sandwich panels. For this, tree-dimensional models of sandwich plates with a penny-shaped debonded zone have been elaborated. In all simulations, computations of dynamic interface crack propagation are carried out in such a way when the crack history and inertial effects on cracking are direct outcomes of the analysis.

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The authors would like to mention that this research has been done within the POLONEZ 2 Project, Grant Agreement No. UMO-2016/21/P/ST8/00790, supported by the National Science Centre of Poland at the Lublin University of Technology within the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665778. The second author (H. Altenbach) also would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Foundation for Polish Science for his stay at the Lublin University of Technology.

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  3. Institut für Mechanik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

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Burlayenko, V.N., Altenbach, H., Sadowski, T. (2019). Dynamic Fracture Analysis of Sandwich Composites with Face Sheet/Core Debond by the Finite Element Method. In: Altenbach, H., Belyaev, A., Eremeyev, V., Krivtsov, A., Porubov, A. (eds) Dynamical Processes in Generalized Continua and Structures. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 103. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11665-1_9

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