An attempt is made to analyse the effect of variation in thermal properties in Fibre Metal Laminate with an implanted delamination. This work focuses to explore the variations in thermal contrast for the increase in values of thermal properties of delamination, Aluminium layers and glass reinforced epoxy layers. The paper projects the numerical investigations towards the thermal analysis of fib...

Carbon fiber (CF)/Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) laminates are emerging as a potential material for aero structural applications thereby offering tough competition to the traditional FRPs. The additional advantages like high production...

The impact damage response of balsa core sandwich composite plates with S2-glass/ epoxy reinforced facesheets is evaluated by impacting them with a spherical steel projectile at single impact locations. The impact damage can significantly reduce the structural integrity and load bearing capacity of a composite structure. Under high velocity impact loading, laminated composites experience signif...

Research on the use of CFRP materials for retrofit and strengthening of steel bridges and structures has increased in recent years. In order to implement these types of strengthening systems to longer span members, it is important to establish an effective method to splice adjacent lengths of CFRP laminates. This paper describes an experimental program to investigate the bond behavior of carbon...

Application of Weibull statistics to tensile strength prediction in laminated composites with open holes is revisited. Quasi-isotropic carbon fiber laminates with two stacking sequences [45/0/-45/90]s and [0/45/90/-45]s with three different hole sizes of 2.54mm, 6.35mm and 12.7mm were considered for analysis and experimental examination. The first laminate showed 20% lower strength for smaller ...

A conductive laminate consisting of stacked two-dimensional plain-weave screen with an arbitrary weave angle is described. Similar to orthogonal screen laminates, these porous matrices can be fabricated to have a wide range of porosity, ε and specific surface area, ß; and the structure can have a highly anisotropic thermal conductivity vector, with in -plane effective thermal conductivities ran...