Buckling behaviour of laminated viscoelastic composites under axial loads

This study investigates the buckling response of viscoelastic composite laminates under compression with the objective of better understanding the ply wrinkling behaviour at the early stage of thermoset composite manufacturing. The composite laminate is modelled as a 3-D viscoelastic solid using two different approaches in Abaqus©. As the application of the built-in viscoelastic model of Abaqus© is limited to isotropic materials, a more...