Reddy, J. N.; Pandey, A. K. A first-ply failure analysis of composite laminates. (English) Zbl 0599.73055 Comput. Struct. 25, 371-393 (1987). A finite-element computational procedure is developed for the first-ply failure analysis of laminated composite plates. The procedure is based on the first-order shear deformation theory and a tensor polynomial failure criterion that contains the maximum stress, maximum strain, the Hill, Tsai-Wu and Hoffman failure criteria as special cases. By specifying the desired criterion, a first-ply failure analysis of composite laminates subjected to in-plane and/or bending loads can be achieved. A number of problems are presented to evaluate these failure criteria when applied to laminates subjected to in-plane and/or bending loads. Cited in 9 Documents MSC: 74S05 Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics 74E30 Composite and mixture properties 74-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids 74K20 Plates Keywords:first-ply failure analysis; laminated composite plates; first-order shear deformation theory; tensor polynomial failure criterion; maximum stress; maximum strain; Hill; Tsai-Wu; Hoffman failure criteria; in-plane and/or bending loads PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. N. Reddy} and \textit{A. K. Pandey}, Comput. Struct. 25, 371--393 (1987; Zbl 0599.73055) Full Text: DOI