Intralaminar damage in polymer composites in the presence of finite fiber rotation: Part I – Constitutive model

The nonlinear behavior of fiber-reinforced composite materials is investigated in the presence of both damage evolution and fiber rotation. While damage mechanisms usually decrease the stiffness of the material and cause premature failure, fiber rotation can lead to a stiffening of the material, due to the reorientation of the fiber towards the loading direction, and delay failure. In this paper, fiber rotation is modeled by an analytical...