Mechanics of Composite Materials - Science topic

Along with the rapid development and progress of industry, special properties of concrete have their corresponding applications and requirements. The development and improvement of a variety of special concrete to meet the needs of different industries has become an inevitable trend in the concrete industry. This paper explore heat-resistant concre...

In engineering practice, structures with identical components or parts are useful from several points of view: less information is needed to describe the system; designs can be conceptualized quicker and easier; components are made faster than during traditional complex assembly; and finally, the time needed to achieve the structure and the cost in...

With this study we intend to relate the cutting conditions and the tool wear with the shearing forces appeared and the phenomenon of the delamination when we mechanized composite materials reinforced with carbon fiber (CFRP). In this case, we will focus on the drilling operation, because the most used to join pieces of these materials are usually s...

Fibre reinforced polymer composites (FRPC) are widely used in engineering applications due to their high specific strength and high specific modulus. However, due to the high complexity of the structures and the damage mechanisms, composite materials are increasingly complex. Traditional NDT techniques such as ultrasound C-scan, shearography and th...

This paper provides a review of Canadian work associated with fatigue of aeronautical structures during the period 1999-2001. All aspects of structural technology are covered including full-scale tests, loads monitoring, fracture mechanics, composite materials and engine fatigue.

The meeting which was attended by researchers from over 20 countries served as a forum to promote new developments in the study of Boundary Element Method and its application to real world problems. The topics discussed included: fracture mechanics, nonlinear problems, sensitivity and optimisation, plate bending, transient problems, contact mechani...

Despite efforts to process high-quality composite material parts, some untimely failures may occur because of defects introduced during manufacturing, because of data that were not taken into account during design, or because of a misuse of the materials' structure. A skilled postmortem failure analysis provides many pieces of information that shed...

This study shows the benefit of a new composite material in terms of energy absorption. Thanks to their numerous fracture mechanisms, composite materials can absorb an important amount of energy. A glass fiber reinforced composite with a thermoplastic matrix has been used in this study for new shock absorption parts for automotive application. An i...

The development of new technology through an extensive research brings the possibility to use long bamboo fibres in unidirectional disposition as reinforcement in composite materials, offering new possibilities for structural and semi structural applications where high performance and low weight is required. A full mechanical and morphological char...

This report provides a review of Canadian work associated with aeronautical fatigue and structural integrity during the period 2013 – 2015. All aspects of structural technology are covered including full-scale tests, loads monitoring, fracture mechanics, composite materials and non-destructive inspection.

As a natural progress of the research in the area of modeling damage at microscopic scales, a discrete element method (DEM) has been proposed to simulate the damage progression in FRC laminates. DEM has been used to study the interfacial debonding, transverse cracking, delamination, and transverse cracking and delamination in FRC laminates. The pur...

This paper presents a method for simulating anisotropic friction for deforming surfaces and solids. Frictional contact is a complex phenomenon that fuels research in mechanical engineering, computational contact mechan- ics, composite material design and rigid body dynamics, to name just a few. Many real-world materials have anisotropic surface pro...