Interaction between kinking and splitting in the compressive failure of unidirectional fiber reinforced laminated composites

The interaction between fiber kink banding and splitting in the compressive response of fiber composites is investigated by adopting a micromechanics based 2D finite element representation of the composite. The effect of scaling of the computational model (size of model) on the compressive strength and post critical response is also studied. The size of the computational model is scaled in a systematic manner by increasing the number of fibers...