N. Blanco

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of ply clustering on polymer-based laminated composite plates subjected to a drop-weight impact loading were investigated, and the results demonstrated that the analytical tools are useful to define the impact configurations, to obtain a preliminary understanding of each parameter that can influence the response, and to interpret the experimental results.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a non-constant propagation mode for deamination growth under fatigue loads in real composite components, which is similar to the one described in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors showed that crack jumping could be avoided by increasing the stiffness of the crack arms of multidirectional composite laminates, which showed a dependency upon both the amount of fiber bridging and the interface angles.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of quasi-static indentation experiments was conducted on AS4D/TC350 carbon/epoxy specimens and the induced damage at different indenter displacements was characterized using electron microscopy and C-scan, while the residual indentation profiles were captured with 3D surface roughness machine.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of mismatch angles between adjacent plies on the damage resistance and damage tolerance of CFRP composites was investigated, and the results showed that the dispersed configuration with small mismatch angles had a superior response compared to the other configurations, with respect to the indentation, the dissipated energy and the residual compressive strength (up to 30% increment).