Failure Characteristics of Carbon/BMI Sandwich Composite Joint under Pull-out Loading

Failure of Fibrous Composite Plates under Static Biaxial Planar Loading

This paper outlines an experimental investigation carried out for the analysis of failure mechanisms in fibrous laminated composite plates containing stress raisers, in the form of cutouts, under static biaxial planar compressive loadiing. A specially designed biaxial loadiing frame was used to test a series of 48 ply graphite/epoxy composite laminated plates with centrally located circular hol...

Effect of Geogrid Aperture Size and Soil Particle Size on Geogrid-Soil Interaction under Pull-Out Loading

Failure Procedure in Adhesive Composite Joints under Different Types of Loading

In this paper, we have used numerical simulation to study failure of adhesive joints in composite plates. To determine the failure load, adhesive joints are subjected to different types of loading and gradual failure of the joint is studied using the finite element method. The composite material failure theory is implemented into the FEM software. Also different geometries for the joint edge ar...

An Investigation into the Pull-out Failure Mechanisms of Suction Caissons

This paper reports results from an investigation into the suction caissons failure mechanisms under vertical pull-out loads. An insight to the failure mechanisms of suction caissons paves the path for developing analytical solutions to their pull-out capacity. The numerical models of suction caissons have first been calibrated by and verified against several experimental data from other researc...

Performance of metallic honeycomb-core sandwich beams under shock loading

Stainless steel square honeycomb core sandwich and solid monolithic beams have been subjected to high-pressure, short-duration impulses using a shock simulation technique involving high-speed impact of Al foam projectiles. The experiments have been designed to achieve two objectives: (i) to demonstrate the benefits of sandwich construction, and (ii) to assess the fidelity of dynamic finite elem...