S.L. Lemanski

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the behavior of aluminium alloy-glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene-based fiber-metal laminates (FMLs) subjected to localised explosive blast loading.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the behaviour of fiber-metal laminates subjected to localised explosive blast loading and found that the threshold impulse for the onset of tearing increases linearly with panel thickness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the length and width of the waviness region along and transverse to the fibres using autocorrelation and found that the length is in the range 1.1-4.4mm, being significantly greater in the prepreg than in the RTM component.

TL;DR: In this paper, failure characterisation of the blast-loaded square fiber-metal laminate panels, identifying trends and failure modes for each panel type, including debonding, large plastic displacement, fibre fracture and matrix cracking are identified as damage mechanisms within the panels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used finite element models of composite failure to predict failure in situations where the failure mechanism was not known in advance, and the model predictions correlate well with experimental results, both qualitatively (location of failure and shape of failed specimen) and quantitatively (failure load).