| Abstract: | The impact response of a laminate composite with a crack or flaw normal to the interface is studied in terms of the intensification of the dynamic stresses around the crack border. Analytically, the laminate is modeled by a single layer with the crack sandwiched between two other layers of dissimilar material. Fourier and Laplace transforms are employed such that the problem reduces to the solution of a system of dual integral equations. Numerical results for the dynamic stress intensity factor are obtained by solving a Fredholm integral equation. The dynamic stress intensity factors are shown to fluctuate as a function of time, reaching a maximum that depends on the elastic properties of the composite and the flaw size.Institute of Fracture and Solid Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennysylvania 18015. Published in Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 835–840, September–October, 1978. |
