Impact resistance and damage tolerance remain major concerns in the design of laminated composite structures. Impact on flat panels has been the subject of extensive experimental and theoretical studies [1]. The work on curved panels is more limited although most laminates in aircraft wings and fuselages, as well as in other vehicles, are more or less curved. The existence of a delamination thr...

drilling is one of the main machining processes carried out in the assembly stage of automobile manufacturing and aerospace components. generally, delamination is considered as a major problem during drilling of composite materials. in this paper, the effects of feed rate, cutting speed and drill point angle on thrust force and delamination factor have been studied by using full factorial desig...

An ultrasonic feature scan imaging system used for testing delamination flaw probably existing in the bimetal rotor clad layer was studied and developed. The bimetal rotor with nine column holes can be tested automatically. All the wave train of testing result will be saved in computer for post processing. There are various imaging modes including depth imaging and amplitude imaging, to find de...

In drilling of composite laminates, it is important to minimize or reduce occurrences of delaminations. In particular, a peel-up delamination at entrance and push-out delamination at exit are common. Delaminations may be avoided by regulating the drill thrust force can be controlled by adjusting the feedrate of the drill. Dynamics involved in drilling of composite laminates is time varying and ...

Of interest in this paper are failure mode interactions when laminated fiber reinforced composites are subjected to compressive loading. Delamination, fiber kink-banding and their interactions are seen to dominate the failure response. This interaction is captured through a computational model that includes interface elements to capture delamination, and, geometric and material nonlinearity to ...

Fibre reinforced plastics are increasing their importance as one of the most interesting groups of material on account of their low weight, high strength and stiffness. To obtain good quality holes, it is important to identify the type of material, ply stacking sequence and fibre orientation. In this paper, the drilling of quasi-isotropic hybrid carbon+glass/epoxy plates is analyzed. Two commer...

Retinal detachments occur when adjacent layers of tissues comprising the retina delaminate from each other or from the underlying choriocapillaris substrate that feeds it. Taking into account experimentally measured mechanical and transport properties of retinal tissue, we build a physical model by treating the retina as a stack of layered, active, water permeable tissues bound by cellular adhe...

Lithographic techniques applied to a substrate prior to film deposition can create areas of low interface adhesion surrounded by regions of high adhesion. If the film is under compression and if buckle delamination is nucleated, conditions can be controlled such that delaminations are confined to the patterned areas of low adhesion. When the area of low adhesion is a strip, the width of the str...

In one design of flexible electronics, thin-film islands of a stiff material are fabricated on a polymeric substrate, and functional materials are grown on these islands. When the substrate is stretched, the deformation is mainly accommodated by the substrate, and the islands and functional materials experience relatively small strains. Experiments have shown that, however, for a given amount o...

Simulation technology has been more and more important in the military weapon system. Simulation system has important research and application value. Flying simulation technology plays an important role in design and training period in the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) system. The multi-agent and object-oriented technology is adopted in the designing of the UAV flying simulator. The flying simu...