View details of the available failure criteria.
Within the Laminate drop-down menu, Simulation Composite Design provides you with four different procedures for performing a failure analysis of laminates. The four laminate failure analysis procedures are: First Ply Failure, First Ply Failure Survey, Progressive Failure, and Failure Envelope. Within each of these four laminate failure analysis procedures, Simulation Composite Design provides you with a choice of eight different failure criteria for composite materials: Max Strain, Max Stress, Tsai-Wu, Tsai-Hill, Hashin, Christensen, Puck, and MCT. Each of these eight failure criteria is briefly described below.
Warning: Simulation Composite Design allows the use of isotropic materials such as steel and aluminum. Be aware that precautions should be taken when applying the following failure criteria to these materials as the majority of the criteria were developed for the sole purpose of predicting failure in transversely isotropic composite materials.