Improving Compression After Impact Response Of Composite Laminates Through Ply Level Hybridization With Thin Plies And Unsymmetrical Designs
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Improving Compression After Impact Response of Composite Laminates Through Ply Level Hybridization with Thin Plies and Unsymmetrical Designs
Despite the weight savings, composite materials are vulnerable to impact loads mainly due to the alarming reduction in the compression after impact strength (CAI). This thesis exploits the potential of laminate designs with novel stacking sequences with the aim to improve the CAI strength of composite thick and thin laminates. Using experimental and numerical studies, we propose unsymmetrical stacking sequence designs and hybrid laminates (mixing different ply grades in the laminate) in the different modules of the thesis. The proposed laminates improves the CAI strength over the baseline by a maximum of 40% which demonstrates the potential of laminate design as an efficient and economic methods towards improving the impact damage tolerance of composites.
Non-Crimp Fabric Composites
Non-crimp fabric (NCF) composites are reinforced with mats of straight (non-crimped) fibres, giving them such advantages as strength, ease of handling and low manufacturing costs. Non-crimp fabric composites provides a comprehensive review of the use of NCF composites, their manufacture and applications in engineering.Part one covers the manufacture of non-crimp fabrics, including also topics such as structural stitching and automated defect analysis. Part two goes on to discuss the manufacture of non-crimp fabric composites, with chapters covering such topics as deformability and permeability of NCF. Part three focuses on the properties of NCF composites, with chapters on stiffness and strength, damage progression and fatigue. Finally, part four covers the applications of NCF composites, including chapters on the aerospace and automotive industries as well as wind turbines and helicopter applications. The book concludes with a discussion of cost analysis of NCF composites in engineering applications.With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, Non-crimp fabric composites is an essential reference for composite manufacturers and structural and mechanical engineers in industries using NCF composites, as well as academics with a research interest in the field. - Provides a comprehensive review of the use of NCF composites, their manufacture and applications in engineering - Reviews the manufacture of non-crimp fabrics, including also topics such as structural stitching and automated defect analysis - Examines the properties of NCF composites considering stiffness and strength, damage progression and fatigue
Elastic Instability Phenomena
This treatise on the stability of engineering structures and components under conservative and non-conservative loading emphasizes important non-linear features of the behavior from the viewpoint of catastrophe phenomena. Part One examines the basis of structural dynamics, and Part Two considers the buckling and post-buckling of structures under gravity loading, and relates the engineering approach to the new catastrophe theory of Thom and Zeeman.