During the past decades, increasing demand in aircraft industry for high-performance,
lightweight structures have stimulated a strong trend towards the development of refined …

Hybrid composites become popular and are today used in a large number of contemporary
structural applications. When compared to non-hybrid composites, hybridization offers …

GLARE (glass-reinforced aluminum laminate) is a new class of fiber metal laminates for
advanced aerospace structural applications. It consists of thin aluminum sheets bonded …

In this paper the effects of surface morphology and voids formed in the metal sheet–prepreg
interface of GLARE laminates were evaluated. The experiments were carried out with …

This paper presents a new analytical model for constant-amplitude fatigue crack
propagation of 'through cracks'(same crack length in all metal layers) in the fibre metal …

Fiber metal laminate (FML) is a kind of lightweight material with excellent mechanical
properties combining advantages of metal laminates and fiber reinforced composites. It has …

The hole-drilling technique of hybrid GLARE laminate described herein utilizes conventional
high-speed steel cobalt and carbide tools with two cutting parameters such as feed rate and …

Glass laminate aluminum reinforced epoxy (GLARE) is a vital class fiber metal laminates
(FMLs) and advanced aircraft material. Despite the ongoing research and utilization of FMLs …

Delamination extension and fatigue crack growth behaviors under single overloads were
investigated for GLARE 2-2/1-0.3 with fiber direction of 00/00. The results indicate that the …

Fibre metal laminates (FMLs) are being used to manufacture many structural components in
aerospace industry because of their very high strength to weight ratios, yet the exact model …