A constitutive model for fiber kinking: Formulation, finite element implementation, and verification

A new mesoscale material model is proposed to analyze structures that fail by the fiber kinking damage mode. The model is formulated following the fiber kinking theory such that the interaction of shear nonlinearity and fiber rotation are tracked throughout the loading history. The model is implemented as a user-defined material in a commercial finite element code. A decomposition algorithm is introduced in the finite element implementation to...