Book of Abstracts

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

• Keynote Lectures
• Oral and Poster Contributions

• A
• B-D
• E
• F-G
• H-L
• M
• N-O
• P-R
• S
• T
• U-Z

PLY-THICKNESS EFFECT ON FIBER-MATRIX INTERFACE CRACK GROWTH (ID 160)

Luca Di Stasio^1,2, Janis Varna¹ and Zoubir Ayadi²

¹Luleå University of Technology, University Campus, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden
²Université de Lorraine, EEIGM, 6 Rue Bastien Lepage, F-54010 Nancy, France

Keywords: Polymer matrix composites, Debonding, Ply-thickness effect, Fracture mechanics

POLYETHER SULFONE INTERLEAVED GLASS/CARBON HYBRID COMPOSITE UNDER IMPACT LOADING (ID 142)

Sakineh Fotouhi¹, Joseph Clamp², Amir Bolouri², Mohamad Fotouhi¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
²Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK

Keywords: Glass/Carbon, Hybrid, Impact, Interleaving, Polyether sulfone

PREDICTION AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF THE NOTCH (IN)SENSITIVITY OF TOW BASED DISCONTINUOUS COMPOSITES (ID 109)

Marco Alves¹, Soraia Pimenta¹, Yizhuo Li¹, Tahreem Naveed¹, Florian Gaudron¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

Keywords: Discontinuous composites, Notch-sensitivity, Numerical modelling

REALISING IMPACT DAMAGE TOLERANT BOULIGAND AND HERRINGBONE/BOULIGAND THIN-PLY CFRP STRUCTURES (ID 119)

Lorenzo Mencattelli¹, and Silvestre T. Pinho¹

¹Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

Keywords: Herringbone, Damage tolerance, Bouligand, Bio-inspired, CFRP

REAL-TIME DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION APPLICATIONS TO COMPOSITE MECHANICAL TESTING (ID 159)

Victor Couty¹, Eric Deletombe², Julien Berthe², Jean-François Witz¹, Pauline Lecomte-Grosbras¹ and Mathias Brieu³

¹Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, FRE 2016 – LaMcube – Laboratoire de mécanique multiphysique multiéchelle, F-59000, Lille, France
²ONERA Lille, 5 rue des Fortifications, 59045 Lille, France
³3Department of Mechanical Engineering, California State University-Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, United States

Keywords: Digital Image Correlation, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Finite Elements, Identification, Multiaxial testing