Engineering structures are often subjected to the conditions of cyclic-loading, which onsets
material fatigue, detrimentally affecting the service-life and damage tolerance of components …

Braiding is a highly versatile and cost-effective method of producing structures that has been
successfully used for numerous applications ranging from ropes, composites, biomedical …

Thermography was used to investigate the fatigue behavior of a braided carbon fiber
polymeric composite plate. A thermographic approach, originally developed in an earlier …

Fabrics of basalt (BFs), E-glass (GFs), and carbon (CFs) fibers with the same areal density
were used to prepare epoxy-based laminates. The BF laminates presented elastic moduli …

Here we present the first real-time three dimensional (3D) observations of damage evolution
in a carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite tube under torsion. An in-situ torsion …

The aim of this study is to utilize infrared thermography to assess the critical damage states,
and to capture the evolving damage processes, of 5HS and 8HS woven carbon fiber/epoxy …

Biaxial and triaxial braided composites are modeled using finite element methods to predict
effective material properties: for biaxial braids, diamond pattern (1/1), regular pattern (2/2) …

Localized deformation and damage mechanism of triaxial braided composite tubes, with
different quantities and positions of axial yarns, were experimentally studied under …

The focus of this study is to assess, using infrared thermography, the fatigue behavior and
the corresponding damage states of a textile polymeric composite plate, as a prerequisite …

Bistable composite shells with high storage efficiency have great potential applications in
deployable space structures. This paper proposes a constrained vibration optimization …