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Francesco Caimmi

Bio: Francesco Caimmi is an academic researcher from Polytechnic University of Milan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Structural health monitoring & Fracture toughness. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 28 publications receiving 186 citations.

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TL;DR: In many applications, polymeric foams (such as expanded polystyrene or expanded polypropylene) are used for protection from impacts as discussed by the authors, and standard design requires the foam to maximize the energy absorpt...
Abstract: In many applications, polymeric foams (such as expanded polystyrene or expanded polypropylene) are used for protection from impacts. Standard design requires the foam to maximize the energy absorpt...

33 citations

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TL;DR: This work discusses a methodology to monitor the state of crack-containing composite laminates through low-cost, commercial off-the-shelf MEMS accelerometers, and adopts cyclic loading conditions, which highlights the sensitivity of the monitoring scheme to the crack length.

22 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the inclusion-to-matrix stiffness ratio was investigated by studying inclusions very stiff with respect to the matrix and infinitely compliant (cavity).

18 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the fracture behavior of continuous unidirectional carbon fiber composite materials prepared adopting two, one plain and one rubber toughened, thermoplastic acrylic resins as matrices was investigated as a function of temperature and displacement rate.

17 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the fracture toughness of glass fiber reinforced polymer composites using macroscopic polymer-glass joints and found that the stress intensity factor phase angle characterizing mode mixity is almost constant with crack length for each test configuration examined.

14 citations


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01 Jan 1996

299 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a finite element model of progressive debonding in fiber reinforced composite is developed based on the cohesive-zone model of interface, and the effect on debonding progress of local stress redistribution due to interaction between the fibers was studied in the framework of two-inclusion model.

71 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, high speed Mode I delamination characterisation of carbon Non Crimp Fabric composites (NCF) with and without through the thickness reinforcement is investigated using visual and force measurements as well as numerical analysis to minimize errors due to the dynamics of this test.

59 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative performance study was conducted on glass fibre-reinforced thermoplastic acrylic and thermosetting epoxy laminates produced by vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding.

58 citations

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TL;DR: It is shown that POD allows to attain a speedup approaching 250, when the reduced order model is asked to feature a high accuracy; moreover, POD tends to outperform a standard modal analysis at increasing number of modes retained in the model.

58 citations