A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELLING OF LOW VELOCITY IMPACT DAMAGE IN COMPOSITE LAMINATES

The modelling of the behaviour of laminates during low velocity impact requires, first, an analysis of the efficiency of the numerical tool used. A logical development in relation to the numerical structure of the code and the experimental observations is proposed. Four aspects of the code implementation are discussed. The first one is the representation of the impact loading by a macro-contact model using the Lagrange multiplier technique. The...