Modelling delamination migration in angle-ply laminates

This paper presents a numerical study of the delamination migration in angle-ply laminates observed in experiments reported in the literature, where the delamination originally propagates along the lower, 0∘/60∘ interface and later migrates onto the upper, 60∘/0∘ interface. The recently-developed Floating Node Method (FNM) is used for modelling this problem. The initiation and propagation of both delamination and matrix cracks are modelled...