While a freestanding high-strength sheet metal subject to tension will rupture at a small strain, it is anticipated that lamination with a ductile sheet metal will retard this instability to an extent that depends on the relative thickness, the relative stiffness, and the hardening exponent of the ductile sheet. This paper presents an analytical study for the deformability of such laminate with...

Abstract   Fiber-metal laminates (FMLs) are new type of composite materials which could improve defects of traditional composites in ductility, formability, impact and damage tolerance. Drawing behavior of a thermoplastic based FML was investigated consisting of glass-fiber reinforced polypropylene composite laminate and aluminum AA1200-O as the core and skin layers, respectively. The effects o...

Abstract Compared with the resin‐based composite laminates, fiber metal laminates (FMLs) have superior impact resistance. In this study, investigations were made to reveal effects of stacking sequence on low‐velocity failure mechanisms and energy dissipation characteristics carbon reinforced plastics (CFRP)/Al hybrid same areal density. Experiments carried out characterize typical mechanical re...

This study presents an approach that uses the refined zigzag element, {2,2} RZE in conjunction with progressive failure criteria to predict the ultimate strength of composite laminates based on only ply-level strength properties. The methodology involves four major steps: (1) Determination of accurate stress and strain fields under complex loading conditions using {2,2} RZE -based finite elemen...

A simple-to-fabricate woven mesh, consisting of bonded laminates of two-dimensional plain-weave conductive screens is described. Geometric equations show that these porous matrices can be fabricated to have a wide range of porosity and specific surface area, . A heat transfer model is developed. It shows that the laminates can have a highly anisotropic thermal conductivity vector, with in-plane...

Abstract Fibre metal laminates (FML) are layered materials consisting of both and reinforced composite layers. Due to numerous possibilities configuration, constituent materials, etc., designing testing such can be time- cost-consuming. In addition that, some parameters cannot obtained directly from the experiment campaign. These problems often overcome by using numerical simulation. this artic...