Composite materials/structures are advancing in product efficiency, cost-effectiveness and
the development of superior specific properties. There are increasing demands in their …

The review emphasis on the innovative methods of utilizing the Acoustic Emission (AE)
parameters in characterizing Fiber Reinforced Plastics (FRPs). This review is structured into …

Timely and effective health evaluation of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) structures
under dynamic fatigue loading is one of the key issues of CFRP in practical engineering …

Acoustic Emission (AE) is a non-destructive testing technique which can be used to identify
both the damage level and the nature of that damage such as tensile cracks and shear …

A comprehensive review on fatigue damage assessment of reinforced concrete (RC)
structures with the aid of acoustic emission (AE) technique has been carried out. The …

An increasing interest for Structural Health Monitoring has emerged in the last decades.
Acoustic emission (AE) is one of the most popular and widely studied methodologies …

The principal aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive literature survey on the
defects, like debonds/delamination in composite joints/structures, focusing on the effect of …

Sensitive structures, such as airframes, need careful inspection and maintenance to avoid
fatigue failures. These activities are expensive, discrete and imperfect, since catastrophic …

Composite materials are heterogeneous in nature and suffer from complex non-linear
modes of failure, such as delamination, matrix crack, fiber-breakage, and voids, among …

In this article, the effect of the tensile loading rate has been investigated on mechanical
properties and failure mechanisms in open-hole carbon fiber reinforced polymer …