Fibre-reinforced composites are rapidly increasing their market share in structural
applications. Nevertheless, this increase would be much stronger if reliable failure …

The recent decades have seen various attempts at the numerical modelling of fibre-
reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in the aerospace, auto and marine sectors due to their …

A computational study of the effect of structures of nanocomposites on their elastic properties
is presented. The special program code for the automatic generation of 3D multiparticle unit …

Synchrotron radiation computed tomography has been used to analyse fibre break
accumulation in unidirectional composites loaded in tension. The data are compared to …

This study presents a combined experimental and computational effort aimed at high-
resolution 3D imaging, visualization, and numerical reconstruction of a fiber-reinforced …

Despite the crucial significance of failure prediction in composites, such an objective
remains challenging, even in unidirectional (UD) systems. A strength model for UD …

Fast, in situ synchrotron X-ray computed tomography (CT) has been used to capture
damage evolution, particularly fibre failures, before final fracture (within 99.9% of the …

Cutting a unidirectional carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (UD CFRP) structure is the basic
unit for CFRP machining, which is a complex thermal-mechanically coupled process. To …

A computational study of the effect of microstructure of hybrid carbon/glass fiber composites
on their strength is presented. Unit cells with hundreds of randomly located and misaligned …

Intra-laminar failure behavior, which plays an essential role in governing the machinability of
carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites, exhibits strong complexity and variety …