LE DINH Tuan

HCMUT VNUHCM, 8/2016

 The First Failure Criterion: The maximum stress criterion, the normal stress, Coulomb, or
Rankine criterion.
_ The first credible failure criterion was proposed by Coulomb in the late 1700s.
_ Its used to predict the failure of brittle materials.
_ Follow Coulomb, the failure will occur as the maximum (normal) principle stress
reaches either the uniaxial tension strength St, or the uniaxial compression strength Sc

Sc 1 , 2 St
 Mohr-Coulomb Failure Criterion: Coulomb-Mohr, internal-fiction theory, about 1800s
_ Its based on the famous Mohrs circle.
_ This criterion is often used in predicting the failure of brittle materials and is applied
to cases of 2-D stress.
_ Mohr's theory suggests that failure occurs when Mohr's Circle at a point in the body
exceeds the envelope created by the two Mohr's circles for uniaxial tensile strength
and uniaxial compression strength.
Coulombs theory is less conservative than Mohrs
theory since it lies outside Mohrs boundary.
 Tresca Failure Criterion: the maximum shear stress criterion, also known as Trescas or
Guests criterion.
_ This criterion is often used to predict the yielding of ductile materials.

_ For the principal stresses ordered as 1 > 2 > 3 then:

1
1 3 S
2
_ Where: C =T S = T/2
C : uniaxial compression strength.
T : uniaxial tension strength.
S : shear strength.
 von Mises Failure Criterion: the maximum distortion energy criterion, octahedral shear
stress theory, or Maxwell-Huber-Hencky-von Mises theory.
_ This criterion is often used to predict the yielding of ductile materials.
_ Failure will occur as the energy of distortion reaches the same energy for
yield/failure in uniaxial tension.

1
2

1 2 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 T 2
_ In the cases of plane stress:

12 1 2 22 T 2

_ Where: C =T S T / 3
C : uniaxial compression strength.
T : uniaxial tension strength.
S : shear strength.
Priciple stresses / Mohrs circle

von Mises Failure Criterion: (Thuyt bn 4)

Tresca Failure Criterion: (Thuyt bn 3)

 Hill-Tsai Failure Criterion:
11 22 11 22 12
2 2 2

1
X Y X X S
Where:
X is the maximum tensile stress that the lamina can take in the x1-direction (fiber
direction), Y is that in the x2-direction (transverse to the fiber), and S is the in-plane
shear strength.
Tsai-Wu Failure Criterion: also known as the interactive tensor polynomial theory or
quadratic polynomial failure theory.
_ This criterion is commonly used in composites.
_ In 2D principle stress space, an example of the Tsai-Wu failure envelope is shown
below.
_ The general form of Tsai-Wu criterion is written as:
Fi i Fij i j 1
_ In the state of plane stress parallel to the x1-x2 plane, we have:
F1 1 F2 2 F11 12 F22 22 F12 1 2 F66 62 1
Where: 1 1 1 1
F1 , F2
X X Y Y
1 1 1
F11 , F22 , F66 2
XX YY S
1
F12 From C.T.Sun
2 XX
Hashin Failure Criterion: 1973
_ This criterion decomposes into separate fiber and matrix failure modes.
_ Tensile Matrix Mode, (22 + 33) > 0
1 1 1
2
( 22 33 ) 2
2
( 2
23
22 33 ) 2
( 122 31
2
) 1
T22 S 23 S12
_ Compressive Matrix Mode, (22 + 33) < 0

2

1 22 33 2 22 33 2
1 C22 1

C22 2S 23 4S 23

1
2
S 23

2
23
22 33
1
2
S12

122 312 1

_ Tensile Fiber Mode, 11 > 0

2
11

1

2 122 31
2
1
T11 S12
_ Compressive Fiber Mode, 11 < 0
2
11
1
C11
Christensen Failure Criterion: 1997
_ Matrix controlled failure
1 1
22 33 22 33 2
1

T22 C22 T22C22
1 1
2
( 2
23 22 33 ) 2
( 2
12 2
31 ) 1
S 23 S12

_ Fiber controlled failure

1 1 1
11 112 1
T11 C11 T11C11