A new cohesive model for simulating delamination propagation in composite laminates under transverse loads. Running title: A new cohesive model for simulating delamination propagation in composite laminates 2 Abstract In this paper, we propose a new cohesive model to stably and accurately simulate the delamination propagations in composite laminates under quasi-static and low-velocity impact tr...

Inverse first-order reliability method for probabilistic fatigue life prediction of composite laminates under multiaxial loading Yibing Xiang and Yongming Liu* Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Clarkson University Potsdam NY.13699, USA Abstract: Multiaxial fatigue reliability is a challenging problem despite extensive progress made during the past few decades. Anisotropic materi...

Thick composite laminates can be used in aerospace and automotive industry replacing metals for weight saving. Increasing the thickness can bring more defects, like voids. This master thesis focuses on the multi-scale voids prediction and their mechanical effect simulation of thick composite laminates manufacturing by Resin Transfer Molding (RTM). It could be potentially used in safe design of ...

Expressions were presented which can be used to estimate the strengths of continuous fiber reinforced composite laminates containing pin-loaded holes. The expressions apply to laminates containing either a single pin loaded hole, a single row of pin loaded holes, or two parallel rows of pin loaded holes.

In this study, compressive strength and contraction of Polymer Composite Laminates made of E-Glass / Carbon bi-woven fabric reinforced in Epoxy resin matrix has been evaluated experimentally. Composite laminates were fabricated using hand lay-up technique for different ply orientations of 0,30,45,60 and stacking sequence of (00/300/450/600)2S for 2 and 3 mm laminate thickness. The laminates wer...

A composite material is a combination of two or more materials arranged in the form of layer one on the other layer using binding material through some prescribed methods. In the Glass fibre coconut fibre human hair hybrid composite method, the epoxy resin is used as binding material, in which one layer is formed of glass fibre, followed by coconut fibre and then by human hair. By using hand la...

fiber metal laminates are hybrid laminates consisting of thin alternating bonded layers of aluminum and fiber/epoxy. arall (aramid aluminum laminate) and galare (glass fiber reinforced aluminum laminate) are specific kinds of fiber metal laminates that consist of thin aluminum sheets along with kevlar/epoxy and glass/epoxy composite layers, respectively. in this study, nonlinear tensile behavio...

In this paper, a method of solution and some numerical resu~s of free vibration and buckling of composite laminates are presented. All the edges of the laminates are assumed as simply supported. Ritz's method of solution is used with deflection surface expressed in terms of double series in Chebyshev polynomials satisfying the simply supported laminate boundary conditions. The numerical results...

-This paper focus on investigating the impact property of laminated composites.The test are performed based onASTM standardsD3029 and D7137.The impact test were carried out using an instrumented drop weight test. The behavior of E-glass/epoxy and carbon fiber laminated composite plates has been experimentally studied under impact of steel projectile at low velocities. The results were obtained ...

This paper developed three-dimensional (3D) Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to investigate the effect of fibre lay-up on the initiation of failure of laminated composites in bending. TsaiHill failure criterion was applied to identify the critical areas of failure in composite laminates. In accordance with the 3D FEA, unidirectional ([0]16), cross-ply ([0/90]4s) and angle-ply ([±45]4s) laminates m...