Over the last two decades, the repair of existing engineering structures using fiber reinforced
polymer composites has attracted a great attention by aerospace industry, as it is more …

In many industries, when replacement of a part is not possible or economic, the repair is
done. One of the best methods for repairing metal and composite parts is using composite …

Nowadays, composite materials are increasingly used in the most diverse areas of
engineering, where non-planar geometries begin to be quite frequent. However, the existing …

Experimental and numerical approaches are used to investigate the effect of impact location
and different external patch configurations on the low-velocity impact behaviors of repaired …

In this paper, the low-velocity impact response of patch-repaired CFRP laminates is
investigated experimentally and numerically. This study considers various patches of …

Natural fibres can replace traditional synthetic fibre composites in applications for which
sustainability is a critical aspect. Elghas date palm leaflets in their natural state and with …

In this study, the impact response, damage accumulation, interlaminar and intralaminar
energy dissipation distributions of patch-repaired carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) …

Composite laminates have been used in the most diverse engineering fields, in which they
are often subject to multi-impacts. Typical examples of these phenomena are found in the …

This study proposes a surrogate-based optimization model of the external patch design for
damaged carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates to improve the impact …

The present paper studies the low-velocity impact testing of carbon-fibre reinforced-plastic
(CFRP) pristine and patch-repair CFRP panels. Firstly, the effect of repeated impacts on the …