SIMULATION METHODOLOGY FOR FRACTURE PROCESSES OF COMPOSITE LAMINATES USING DAMAGE-BASED MODELS SEYED SAEID RAHIMIAN KOLOOR A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Universiti Teknologi of Malaysia JUNE 2016 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Institutional Repository