Professor SHUGUANG LI shuguang.li@nottingham.ac.uk
PROFESSOR OF AEROSPACE COMPOSITES
A critical appraisal of the Hashin failure criterion
Li, Shuguang; Sitnikova, Elena
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Dr ELENA SITNIKOVA ELENA.SITNIKOVA@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
RESEARCH FELLOW
Abstract
The Hashin criterion is one the most popular failure criteria for fibre reinforce composites. It is critically appraised in this paper. The most significant feature of the criterion is failure modes introduced and the assumption that failure is determined by the traction on the failure plane. For this assumption, there has never been any justification provided in the literature, except the available arguments in the Mohr criterion, where the concept of plane failure as opposed to point failure was first introduced based on this assumption. However, the arguments there were applicable only to isotropic materials and, even so, they are not without exceptions. As contradictions to the assumption in the context of composite failure, three relatively simple cases have been considered in this paper, supported by physical evidence. In each case, failure is observed in a plane on which traction vanishes completely, to which the failure cannot be attributed. The assumption is therefore unfounded both theoretically and physically for anisotropic materials, which dismisses the validity of the Hashin criterion in turn.
Citation
Li, S., & Sitnikova, E. (2024). A critical appraisal of the Hashin failure criterion. Journal of Composite Materials, 58(29), 3045-3058. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219983241289488
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Acceptance Date | Sep 19, 2024 |
| Online Publication Date | Oct 1, 2024 |
| Publication Date | 2024-12 |
| Deposit Date | Jan 12, 2025 |
| Publicly Available Date | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Journal | Journal of Composite Materials |
| Print ISSN | 0021-9983 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1530-793X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 29 |
| Pages | 3045-3058 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/00219983241289488 |
| Keywords | Hashin criterion, Tsai-Wu criterion, Mohr criterion, failure plane, failure mode |
| Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/40291041 |
| Publisher URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00219983241289488 |
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