The predictive capability of failure mode concept-based strength conditions for laminates composed of unidirectional laminae under static triaxial stress states

Abstract

This paper represents the author’s contribution to the second world-wide failure exercise using his failure mode concept modelling capability. The second world-wide failure exercise deals with the behaviour of isotropic material and unidirectional as well as multidirectional unidirectional laminae-composed laminates subjected to three-dimensional (triaxial) states of stress. Twelve challenging test cases were provided by the organisers and those covered stress–strain curves and failure envelopes under three-dimensional stress states. The application of the new failure mode concept model has extended the three-dimensional modelling by taking into account the effects of hydrostatic pressure and second glass temperature shift factor on the stress–strain curves and failure envelopes. The failure mode concept model was capable of successfully solving the majority of all the problems and a comparison between the predictions and test data is planned to be published in Part B of the second world-wide failure exercise.