The effect of transverse compressive stresses on tensile failure of carbon fibre/epoxy composites

Wisnom, Michael R.; Rev, Tamas; Wisnom, Michael; Xu, Xiaodong; Cz�l, Gergely

doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2022.106894

All Outputs (9)

Investigation of fracture process zone development in quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates using in situ and ex situ X-ray Computed Tomography (2022)
Journal Article

Trans-laminar fracture toughness is an important property of laminated composites and examining the fracture process zone at the tip of a crack is key to understanding it. To date, little research has been done on in-depth examination of the early fr... Read More about Investigation of fracture process zone development in quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates using in situ and ex situ X-ray Computed Tomography.

Improved impact damage resistance of tapered composite laminates using a ply scarfing technique (2022)
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This paper presents an experimental investigation into the effect of scarfed ply drops on the low velocity impact response of asymmetrically tapered, multi-directional, carbon/epoxy laminates, in comparison with that of conventional ply drops. Impact... Read More about Improved impact damage resistance of tapered composite laminates using a ply scarfing technique.

Predicting flexural properties of carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastics sheet moulding compounds (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Identifying fibre orientations for fracture process zone characterization in scaled centre-notched quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates with a convolutional neural network (2022)
Journal Article

This paper presents a novel X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) image analysis method to characterize the Fracture Process Zone (FPZ) in scaled centre-notched quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates. A total of 61 CT images of a small specimen were used to... Read More about Identifying fibre orientations for fracture process zone characterization in scaled centre-notched quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates with a convolutional neural network.

Experimental study on the mechanical behaviour of Carbon-fibre z-pin reinforced curved composite laminates under four-point bending (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Numerical investigation of compression-after-lightning strike characteristics of Carbon/epoxy laminates (2022)
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An Experimental Study of Crack Propagation in Stiffened Over height Compact Tension (SOCT) Specimens (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Rapid prediction of fibre-dominant tensile failure in randomly oriented strands (2022)
Journal Article

A stochastic morphological modelling framework has been established to predict the tensile behaviour of Randomly Oriented Strands made of ultra-thin Carbon Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic prepreg tapes. The tape properties from their distributions are... Read More about Rapid prediction of fibre-dominant tensile failure in randomly oriented strands.

The effect of transverse compressive stresses on tensile failure of carbon fibre/epoxy composites (2022)
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A novel test configuration has been developed to induce combined stress-states of in-plane longitudinal tension and transverse compression in thin-ply, unidirectional (UD) composite layers. Three different multi-directional laminates have been design... Read More about The effect of transverse compressive stresses on tensile failure of carbon fibre/epoxy composites.