A phase-field damage model for orthotropic materials is proposed and used to simulate delamination of orthotropic laminated composites. Using the deviatoric and hydrostatic tensile components of the stress tensor for elastic orthotropic materials, a degraded elastic free energy that can accommodate damage is derived. The governing equations follow from the principle of virtual power and the resulting damage model, by its construction, conforms with the physical relevant condition of no matter interpenetration along the crack faces. The model also dispenses with the traction separation law, an extraneous hypothesis conventionally brought in to model the interlaminar zones. The model is assessed through numerical simulations on delaminations in mode I, mode II, and another such problem with multiple initial notches. The present method is able to reproduce nearly all the features of the experimental load displacement curves, allowing only for small deviations in the softening regime. Numerical results also show forth a superior performance of the proposed method over existing approaches based on a cohesive law.
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