Luis P. Canal

TL;DR: A bottom-up, multiscale modeling approach is presented to carry out high-fidelity virtual mechanical tests of composite materials and structures and the roadmap for the extension of the current strategy to include functional properties and processing into the simulation scheme is delineated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the fracture behavior parallel to the fibers of an E-glass/epoxy unidirectional laminate was studied by means of three-point tests on notched beams.

TL;DR: In this article, a finite element analysis of a RVE of the composite microstructure of uniaxially fiber-reinforced composites with a ductile rubber-toughened epoxy matrix was studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied digital image correlation (DIC) to analyze the deformation mechanisms under transverse compression in a fiber-reinforced composite and found that DIC of low-magnification micrographs was able to capture the long range fluctuations in strain due to the presence of matrixrich and fiber-rich zones, responsible for the onset of damage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the feasibility of using Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) arrays to monitor the distribution of strains developed along the bonded region in single lap shear specimens.