Book of Abstracts

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

THE EFFECT OF STEAM EXPLODED FIBRES ON THE MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF POLYMER COMPOSITE (ID 135)

Pooria Khalili1, Brina Blinzler1 and Roland Kádár2

1Division of Materials and Computational Mechanics, Department of Industrial and Materials Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Se-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
2Division os Engineering Materials, Department of Industrial and Materials Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Se-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden

Keywords: Thermoplastic composites, Steam exploded fibres, Mechanical properties

THE TRANSLAMINAR FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE POLYMER FIBRE COMPOSITES AND THEIR CARBON FIBRE HYBRIDS (ID 132)

Yoran Geboes1,2, Amalia Katalagarianakis1, Jan Ivens1, Yentl Swolfs1

1Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44 box 2450, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
2SIM vzw, Technologiepark 48, BE-9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium

Keywords: Polymer composites, Translaminar fracture toughness, High-performance polymer fibres, Compact tension

TIME-DEPENDENT PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE REINFORCED HDPE (ID 163)

Zainab Al-Maqdasi1, Liva Pupure1, Nazanin Emami1 and Roberts Joffe1

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

Keywords: Graphene nano-platelets, Polymer nano-composites, Viscoplasticity, Modelling

TRANSVERSE CRACKING IN THIN PLY-COMPOSITES: MESOSCALE MODELLING AND ACCURATE PREDICTIONS (ID 136)

Sébastien Kohler1, Joël Cugnoni1, John Botsis1

1Laboratory of Applied Mechanics and Reliability Analysis (LMAF-STI), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland

Keywords: Thin-ply, size effects, multiscale modelling,transverse cracking, cohesive elements