This paper provides a state-of-the-art review on adhesively bonded joints (ABJs) for
composite materials and structures, with a focus on the open literatures from 2016 to 2023 to …

Structural health monitoring for lightweight complex composite structures is being
investigated in this paper with a data-driven deep learning approach to facilitate automated …

Damage characterization of laminated composites has undergone extensive research,
leading to the development of several damage models that incorporate acoustic emission …

Digital image correlation (DIC) is a powerful technique for determining material deformation
and damage and currently is viewed as a potential method to study failure and crack …

Polymethacrylimide (PMI) foam materials exhibit great potential in engineering applications
due to their lightweight property. Nevertheless, there is lack of constitutive data regarding the …

Joining metal and glass fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite (GFRTP) is advantageous
for obtaining a lightweight structure. In this study, a hot-pressing joining of 6061 aluminum …

Cohesive zone model (CZM) has been extensively applied in numerical simulation of
interfacial fracture behaviors such as composite delamination and fracture of adhesive …

Cohesive zone model (CZM) has been extensively used to study interfacial failure behaviors
such as fracture of adhesively bonded joints (ABJs). Accurate and efficient identification of …

Mantis shrimps deliver one of the fastest strikes with their powerful dactyl clubs. The
kinematic energy derived by a saddle storing and releasing mechanical energy with large …

The present work investigates the interlaminar fracture toughness of a thin unidirectional
carbon fiber-reinforced/polyamide6 (CF/PA6) composite laminate. Aluminum (Al) stiffening …