•Journal•ISSN: 0963-6935
Advanced Composites Letters
SAGE Publishing
About: Advanced Composites Letters is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Epoxy & Composite number. It has an ISSN identifier of 0963-6935. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 813 publications have been published receiving 3468 citations.
Topics: Epoxy, Composite number, Ultimate tensile strength, Composite laminates, Matrix (mathematics)
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TL;DR: In this paper, natural fiber-mat-reinforced thermoplastics (NMTs) based on flax fibres and a polypropylene (PP) matrix were manufactured using a film-stacking method.
Abstract: Natural-fibre-mat-reinforced thermoplastics (NMTs) based on flax fibres and a polypropylene (PP) matrix were manufactured using a film-stacking method. The influence of fibre content on stiffness a...
99 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of input process parameters on machinability of wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) process for machining of tripliers was investigated.
Abstract: This article presents an experimental investigation to assess the influence of input process parameters of machinability of wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) process for machining of tripl...
79 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended the prior analysis of concentric cylinders to a generalized shear-lag analysis in which the transverse variations of shear stress are described by arbitrary shape functions.
Abstract: Two recent papers showed that shear-lag analysis can be an eective tool for stress analysis of composites when done properly and when applied to problems for which it is appropriate. This paper extends the prior analysis of concentric cylinders to a generalized shear-lag analysis in which the transverse variations of shear stress are described by arbitrary shape functions. The shear-lag analysis and solution can be derived in terms of averages of the new shape functions. The shape functions can be specied after analysis and tailored to suit specic problems. This paper also extends shear-lag analysis of both concentric cylinders and multilayered structures to model imperfect interfaces between the layers. The generalized methods were applied to several issues in ber/matrix stress transfer modeled as two concentric cylinders. By modifying prior shape functions, it was possible to extend shear-lag analysis to work for any ber volume fraction. Prior shear-lag models were all unacceptable at low ber volume fraction. The full shear-lag analysis can model stress transfer for both isotropic and anisotropic bers. The new imperfect interface capability was used to interpret experimental results for ber/matrix stress transfer in terms of interface quality.
77 citations
TL;DR: The development of continuous fibre reinforced composite systems has been studied in the area of natural fibre reinforced composites as mentioned in this paper, however most developments in this area have focused on random discontinuous fiber composite systems.
Abstract: Currently most developments in the area of natural fibre reinforced composites have focused on random discontinuous fibre composite systems. The development of continuous fibre reinforced composite...
76 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the energy release rate for propagation of a debond in a single-fibre pull out test was derived analytically using a global energy analyser.
Abstract: The energy release rate for propagation of a debond in a single-fibre pull out test was derived analytically. The key finding was that an accurate analysis can be derived by a global energy analysi...
74 citations