Research Article

Implementation of Virtual Crack Closure Technique for Damaged Composite Plates Using Higher-Order Layerwise Model

Table 3

Nondimensional SIF with respect to depth of V-notch when = 90°.

Chen [10]Gross and Mendelson [12]Lin and Tong [13]Present

0.21.5971.6041.5921.495
0.31.9391.9401.9361.856
0.42.4722.4732.4682.409
0.53.3223.3243.3183.267
0.64.7834.7964.7924.791
0.77.6317.6437.718