Lightweight primary and secondary structures of aircraft, wind turbines and automobile are
mostly made of polymer-matrix composites. The selection of fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) …

A comprehensive review of techniques for the experimental characterisation of the fracture
toughness associated with the translaminar (fibre-breaking) failure modes of continuously …

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 …

A novel approach for damage characterization through machine learning is presented
where theoretical knowledge of failure and strain-softening is linked to the macroscopic …

Abstract Qualification of Fiber Reinforced Polymer materials (FRP's) for manufacturing of
structural components in the aerospace industry is usually associated with extensive and …

3D failure criteria for laminated fibre-reinforced composites, based on a physical model for
each failure mode and considering non-linear matrix shear behaviour, are developed …

This paper presents the application of a new constitutive damage model for an epoxy matrix
on micromechanical analyses of polymer composite materials. Different representative …

An intralaminar damage model, based on a continuum damage mechanics approach, is
presented to model the damage mechanisms occurring in carbon fibre composite structures …

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 …

Fiber reinforced composites have very excellent mechanical properties due to their sophistic
microstructures. At the same time these microstructures can induce complex failure …