Out-of-plane tensile failure behavior of fiber reinforced composites due to lay-up temperature induced intra-ply and inter-ply voids

The focus of this paper is to understand the effect of voids on the damage mechanism of the composite under out-of-plane tensile load with different lay-up temperature conditions. A micro-scale model for ply-by-ply structure is established containing intralaminar and interlaminar domain in which voids are generated by a random irregular voids generation algorithm to explore the role of voids (intra-ply voids and inter-ply voids) on the...