Programming of composite plates damage calculation

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to present the numerical results of elastic damage of thin unidirectional fiber-reinforced composite plates. The numerical implementation uses a layered shell finite element based on the Kirchhoff plate theory. Newton-Raphson method is used to solve the system of nonlinear equations and evolution of damage has been solved using return-mapping algorithm. The analysis is performed by finite element method and user own software is created in MATLAB programming language. One problem for two different materials was simulated in order to study the damage of laminated fiber reinforced composite plates.