There has been an ever-going need for materials containing excellent mechanical
properties, lower density, and improved fuel efficiency in the aerospace industry. To date …

One of the major difficulties in establishing material properties for composites is to obtain
reliable compressive strengths either from the current direct compressive testing methods …

Compact compression specimens with off-axis fibres are employed in this paper, to
investigate the effect of in-plane shear stress on the fibre kinking compressive fracture …

Dynamic fracture toughness of laminated composites in fibre kinking mode, and its evolution
with crack growth, is characterized in this paper at high loading rate. The compact …

The composite strength refers to the ultimate local value rather than the average value of
local strength, thus the effect of size effect needs to be considered. In this study …

The analysis of several micromechanical models for estimating strength of composite
laminae is presented. Longitudinal tensile, compressive and in-plane onset shear strengths …

A series of dynamic longitudinal compression tests have been performed on cross-ply
IM7/8552 specimens cut at different off-axis angles to produce different combinations of …

To research the axial compression properties of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced epoxy
resin composite (UCFREP), the compression experiments at different strain rates were …

The effect of the off‐axis angle (note as θ) on compressive properties and failure
mechanisms in needled carbon/quartz fiber reinforced phenolic resin (CF‐QF/PF) composite …

Hierarchical nanoengineered composite laminates were created with through-thickness-
aligned carbon nanotube (A-CNT) reinforcement of unidirectional carbon (micro) fiber/epoxy …