Adhesive bonding is one of the most suitable joining technologies in terms of weight and
mechanical performance for current carbon fiber reinforced polymer aircraft fuselage …

Optimization of process parameters of major aerospace composites manufacturing
techniques is essential for manufacturing high-quality aerospace components. However …

Low-velocity impact damage can drastically reduce the residual strength of a composite
structure even when the damage is barely visible. The ability to computationally predict the …

Presenting a wealth of completely revised examples and new information, Introduction to
Composite Materials Design, Second Edition greatly improves on the bestselling first edition …

Thin-ply composites are rapidly gaining interest in the composite industry, not only because
of the larger design possibilities that they offer, but also because of positive size effects that …

A continuum damage model for the prediction of the onset and evolution of intralaminar
failure mechanisms and the collapse of structures manufactured in fiber-reinforced plastic …

This paper presents finite element simulations of two standardized and sequential tests
performed in polymer–matrix composite laminates reinforced by unidirectional fibers: the …

This papers describes the computational implementation of a new damage model for
laminated composites proposed in a previous paper. The objectivity of the numerical …

This study investigated the damage and failure mechanism of composite laminates under
low-velocity impact and compression-after-impact (CAI) loading conditions by numerical and …

This paper presents a pressure-dependent three-dimensional constitutive law to predict
failure for laminated composites. The nonlinear constitutive response in shear and in the …