Innovations of advanced materials have been at the core of most engineering technologies,
devices and systems. Composite laminates in particular have been extensively employed in …

Composite materials are known for their high stiffness and strength at lower weight as
compared to conventional structural materials. Recently, there has been a growing interest …

Trans-laminar fracture toughness is an important property of laminated composites and
examining the fracture process zone at the tip of a crack is key to understanding it. To date …

Simulating polymer-based composite structures under low-velocity impact and sequencing
compression after impact loading, is a complex problem that requires using well-suited …

The development of numerical tools to complement the experimental determination of
structural design parameters is of key importance to hasten the certification process of new …

Bio-inspired patterns of micro-cuts perpendicular to the fibre direction in thin-ply CFRP
laminates have been used to increase the translaminar fracture toughness of the material …

In the recent past, several studies have been undertaken to characterise the loading rate
dependency of the translaminar fracture toughness GI c f+, however, no consensus has yet …

The main aim of this study is to investigate the influence of long fiber types on the
translaminar fracture behvior of epoxy-based composites subjected to pure mode I, mixed …

Three different J-integral formulations to derive the experimental translaminar toughness of
composites from compact tension tests with a large-scale fracture process zone are …

In this paper, the role of interface fiber angle on the bridging traction of double cantilever
beam (DCB) specimens is investigated experimentally. In order to eliminate the effect of the …