Carbon fibres and their composites are well known for their excellent tensile properties and
light weight characteristics which, amongst other advantages continues to drive demand …

The aim of this paper is to characterise the fibre orientation in unidirectional fibre reinforced
polymers, namely glass and carbon fibre composites. The compression strength of the …

A general problem when forming quasi-isotropic, multilayer unidirectional (UD) prepreg over
a double curved geometry is out-of-plane wrinkling. The presented study aims to show the …

Abstract We apply Digital Image Correlation (DIC) to X-ray Computed Tomography (CT)
slices for characterization of individual fibers misalignment in continuous fiber composites …

Fibre orientation is measured from polished sections of the unidirectional plies of two
industrial CFRP components made by resin transfer moulding (RTM) or prepreg/vacuum …

Initial fibre misalignment is recognised to be one of the precursors leading to longitudinal
compressive failure in fibre-reinforced composites. Thus, to properly model their mechanical …

Laminated fibre-reinforced composites can be reinforced by through-thickness pins to
reduce their susceptibility to delamination. However, the presence of the pins creates resin …

This paper proposes a methodology for measurement of fibre misalignment in composite
laminates based on the structure tensor of fibre orientations extracted from X-ray micro …

The limited capability to predict material failure in composite materials and specifically in
wavy composite layers has led to high margins of safety for the design of composite …

Composite structures suffer from material imperfections. Non-deterministic models at the
micro-and mesoscale propagate this spatial variability. However, they become impractical …