Inspired by the composite structure of soft and hard phases found in biological materials, this
paper prepares the CF/PPS woven composite laminates with bionic high toughness regions …

In this research, pre-cracked carbon fiber reinforced composite laminates, based on an
infusible thermoplastic resin (Elium®), were manufactured via the vacuum assisted resin …

Laminated composites are prone to fracture at layer interfaces. Such damage impairs their
structural response and engenders important constraints in design. In this work, the …

A nonlinear rate-dependent cohesive rule based on a novel incorporation by Schapery
nonlinear coefficients is suggested to model crack growth in the case of polyethylene which …

This paper integrates an efficient numerical framework with robust and accurate constitutive
equations to study transverse behavior and multiple cracking of cross-ply fiber-reinforced …

This study investigated the mechanism of delamination damage in the double cantilever
beam (DCB) standard test by the use of the strain energy release rate. The curve of the …

Fiber bridging can significantly influence the interlaminar toughness of laminated
composites. However, very little is known about to what extent it depends on the processing …

Multidirectional laminates are very often used in advanced structures. However, the existing
data in the literature regarding their fracture response is not conclusive. In this work, the …

Thin-ply composites were shown to exhibit significantly delayed transverse cracking, but the
linear onset of damage scaling with ply thickness reported by Amacher et al.(2014) did not …

The three-dimensional failure process experimentally observed by synchrotron radiation X-
ray computed tomography (SR X-CT) regarding the influence of the interfiber distance is …