A review of helicoidal composites: From natural to bio-inspired damage tolerant materials

H Ning, C Monroe, S Gibbons… - International …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Helicoidal composites have been found in shrimp club, lobster claw, beetle cuticle, crab
shell, scorpion pincer, and fish scale as a natural material. The helicoidal composite …

Fatigue damage mechanisms and evolution of residual tensile strength in CFRP Composites: stacking sequence effect

Z Lei, R Pan, W Sun, Y Dong, Y Wan, B Yin - Composite Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
This study explores the effect of fiber orientation on the fatigue resistance of carbon fiber
reinforced polymer composite laminates. First, fatigue damage mechanisms of composite …

Dynamic mechanical thermal analysis of unaged and hygrothermally aged discontinuous Bouligand structured CFRP composites

C Nwambu, C Robert, P Alam - Functional Composites and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A dynamic mechanical thermal analyser operating in the single cantilever mode was used to
examine the dynamic mechanical properties of unaged and hygrothermally aged …

Tensile behaviour of unaged and hygrothermally aged discontinuous Bouligand structured CFRP composites

C Nwambu, C Robert, P Alam - Oxford Open Materials Science, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The aim of this article is to determine the effects of hygrothermal ageing on the tensile
behaviour of asymmetric discontinuous helicoidally stacked (Bouligand structured) carbon …

Viscoelastic properties of bioinspired asymmetric helicoidal CFRP composites

CN Nwambu, C Robert, P Alam - MRS Advances, 2022 - Springer
A dynamic mechanical thermal analyser (DMTA) was used to develop insight into the
dynamic mechanical properties of bioinspired asymmetric helicoidal carbon fibre reinforced …

Low velocity impact study of vacuum bag infused bouligand inspired composites

L Amorim, A Santos, JP Nunes… - Polymer Composites, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This work proposes three Bouligand‐inspired layups to enhance low velocity impact (LVI)
damage resistance and tolerance of convectional aircraft composite laminates. Two …

Effects of rice straw fibre and walnut shell ash particulates on the mechanical behavior of epoxy composite

C Ekwedigwe, C Nwambu… - Unizik Journal of …, 2023 - journals.unizik.edu.ng
This work studied the effects of rice straw fibre and walnut shell ash particulates on the
tensile and impact behaviours of epoxy composites. Conventional hand-lay-up techniques …

Optimization of the Tensile Behavior of Natural Fibre Reinforced composite for Hockey Stick application with Taguchi method

EN Nwankwo, CN Nwambu… - Journal of Inventive …, 2023 - jiengtech.com
This paper experimentally investigated the tensile behaviors of hybrid composite structures
containing different concentrations of Banana and Sponge Gourd fibres (BF and SGF) for …

[PDF][PDF] Taguchi analysis of the tensile behaviour of unaged and hygrothermally aged asymmetric helicoidally stacked CFRP composites

CN Nwambu, GI Chibueze, EN Nwankwo… - Journal of Civil …, 2023 - engineegroup.us
Taguchi method was used to predict and optimize the effects of hygrothermal aging on the
tensile behavior of asymmetric helicoidally stacked Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) …

Optimization of viscoelastic behaviors of bioinspired asymmetric helicoidal CFRP composites using Taguchi Method

C Nwambu, I Chibueze, K Iyebeye… - Archive of Biomedical …, 2023 - engineegroup.us
The dynamic mechanical properties play an important role in the selection of suitable
materials in the manufacturing wing of aircraft and wind turbine blades. In this paper, the …