The effect of delamination on the critical buckling force of composite plates: Experiment and simulation

Buckling is one of the main failure type of slender structures, therefore it is important to get know how delaminations affect the critical buckling loads. In this work orthotropic rectangular plates with trough-the-width delamination are modelled using special types of Mindlin plate finite elements. The simulations are verified through experiments. The verification shows that the presented progressive finite element model is able to model the...