Hashin’s Failure Criteria for Unidirectional Fibre Composites

These are interacting failure criteria where more than one stress components have been
used to evaluate the different failure modes. Usually Hashin criteria are implemented
within two dimensional classical lamination approach for point stress calculations with
ply discounting as the material degradation model. Failure indices for Hashin criteria are
related to fibre and matrix failures and involve four failure modes. The criteria are
extended to three dimensional problems where the maximum stress criteria are used for
transverse normal stress component.

The failure modes included in Hashin’s criteria are as follows.

1. Tensile fibre failure for σ11 ≥ 0

2
  11   122   132   1 failure
   
 XT  S122  1 no failure

2. Compressive fibre failure for σ11 < 0

2
  11    1 failure
  
 X C   1 no failure

3. Tensile matrix failure for σ22 + σ33 > 0

 22   33  122   2   1 failure
2
 232   22 33
  13

YT2  1 no failure
2
S23 S122

4. Compressive matrix failure for σ22 + σ33 < 0

 Y 2          2  2    122   132   1 failure

 C
  1 
22 33

22 33
 23 22 33
 
 2S23    YC  4S232 S232 S122  1 no failure

5. Interlaminar tensile failure for σ33 > 0

2
  33    1 failure
  
 ZT   1 no failure
6. Interlaminar compression failure for σ33 < 0
2
  33    1 failure
  
 Z C   1 no failure
where, σij denote the stress components and the tensile and compressive allowable
strengths for lamina are denoted by subscripts T and C, respectively. XT, YT, ZT denotes
the allowable tensile strengths in three respective material directions. Similarly, XC, YC,
ZC denotes the allowable tensile strengths in three respective material directions. Further,
S12, S13 and S23 denote allowable shear strengths in the respective principal material
directions.

Reference:
Hashin Z. Failure criteria for unidirectional fibre composites, ASME Journal of Applied
Mechanics, Vol. 47 (2), 1980, pp 329-334.