Book of Abstracts

R. Joffe, L. Pupure, J. Varna, L. Wallström (Editors)

EFFECT OF DEGREE OF CURE ON NON-LINEAR BEHAVIOUR OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS (ID 165)

Liva Pupure1, Sibin Saseendran2, Janis Varna1

1Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden
2RISE SICOMP, Box 271, SE-94129, Piteå, Sweden

Keywords: Degree of Cure, nonlinearity, viscoplasticity, viscoelasticity

EFFECT OF LOCAL DELAMINATIONS ON THE IN-PLANE STIFFNESS OF CROSS-PLY LAMINATES (ID 167)

H. Ben Kahla1and Janis Varna1

1Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden

Keywords: Intralaminar cracks, Local delamination, COD, FEM

ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITE LAMINATES IN THE PRESENCE OF OFF-AXIS CRACKS AND DELAMINATION: MODELLING AND MEASUREMENTS (ID 144)

Paolo A. Carraro1, Lucio Maragoni1, Marino Quaresimin1

1Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova, Stradella S. Nicola, 3, Vicenza, Italy

Keywords: Stiffness degradation, shear lag, off-axis crack, delamination

ELIMINATION OF VOLUME REDUNDANCY IN EMBEDDED ELEMENTS/COHESIVE ZONES MODELLING OF INTERFACE AND MATRIX DAMAGE MODELLING IN FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITES (ID 138)

Fangzhou Lu1, Pavel Druzhinin2, Qiang Liu3, Dirk Vandepitte2, Larissa Gorbatikh3 and Stepan V. Lomov3

1State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao Street, 210016 Nanjing, P.R. China
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 41 bus 2420, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
3Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44 bus 2450, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

Keywords: Fibre reinforced composites, Embedded zones, Cohesive zones, Progressive damage

EXACT EXPRESSIONS OF CRACK FACE SLIDING DISPLACEMENT (CSD) FOR INPLANE ELASTIC CONSTANTS OF SYMMETRIC DAMAGED LAMINATES (ID 156)

Mohamed Sahbi Loukil1,2and Janis Varna3

1RISE SICOMP, Box 271, SE-94129, Piteå, Sweden
2Division of Engineering Materials, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping
3Division of Materials Science, Luleå University of Technology SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden

Keywords: Crack Sliding displacement (CSD), FEM, Transverse cracks

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF DAMAGE FORMATION IN THIN-PLY COMPOSITES (ID 162)

Konstantinos Giannadakis1, Mohamed Sahbi Loukil1,2 and Florence Rinn3

1RISE SICOMP, Bröderna Ugglas Gata, Hus 208, Linköping, Sweden
2Linköping University, Division of Engineering Materials, 581 83 Linköping
3Oxeon AB, Företagsgatan 24, 504 64 Borås, Sweden

Keywords: Polymer composites, Digital Image Correlation, Mechanical properties, Finite elements