A novel approach for the strain rate dependent modelling of woven composites

This study proposes a new computational model for polyamid-matrix woven composites that takes into account rate effects for high speed impact applications. The rate effects are captured solely through the use of a spectral viscoelastic model, used in parallel with a conventional damage elastic-plastic model. It appears that, for very different load rates, neither plasticity nor damage kinetics need any first order rate dependency to capture the...