An improved power law criterion for the delamination propagation with the effect of large-scale fiber bridging in composite multidirectional laminates

Large-scale fiber bridging can significantly enhance delamination resistance, which makes the use of traditional delamination propagation criterion failed to accurately evaluate the delamination behavior in multidirectional laminates. This paper proposed an improved power law criterion to take account for the effect of fiber bridging on the delamination behavior. The key of the improved criterion lies on the introducing of R-curves, which can...