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Saleh, M. (author), Budzik, Michal K. (author), Saeedifar, M. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author)Thicker bondlines along with manufacturing-tolerant and fracture-resistant adhesives are trends visible across different industries, especially maritime. In this work, two contrasting adhesives: an elastic-brittle epoxy-based, and a nonlinear-ductile methyl methacrylate (MMA) are characterized and compared via tensile, compact tension (CT)...journal article 2022
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Li, X. (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Ply-block size and stress level effect on accumulation of transverse cracks and delamination are investigated during early fatigue life of CFRP laminates. Tension-tension fatigue tests under different stress levels were performed for two cross-ply configurations. Edge observation with digital cameras, digital image correlation and acoustic...journal article 2022
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Wang, W. (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author), Poulis, J.A. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)High performance structures require the use of different materials to meet their demanding requirements. Especially fibre reinforced polymer composites are nowadays often bonded to metals in order to take the most advantage of the materials properties and to minimize their disadvantages. However, the interface in such bi-material assemblies...review 2021
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Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Conducting damage diagnostics on stiffened panels is commonly performed using a single SHM technique. However, each SHM technique has both its strengths and limitations. Rather than straining the expansion of single SHM techniques going beyond their intrinsic capacities, these strengths and limitations should instead be considered in their...journal article 2021
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Mohammadi, R. (author), Najafabadi, Mehdi Ahmadi (author), Saghafi, Hamed (author), Saeedifar, M. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)The present study is focused on the characterization of the fatigue damage features in carbon/epoxy laminates under mode-II loading conditions. To this aim, a sinusoidal cyclic load was applied to the End-Notched Flexural (ENF) specimens and the fatigue behavior of specimens was investigated. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was used to...journal article 2021
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Mohammadi, Reza (author), Ahmadi Najafabadi, Mehdi (author), Saghafi, Hamed (author), Saeedifar, M. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Interleaving composite laminates with nanofibrous mat is one of the most reliable methods for increasing interlaminar fracture toughness. The present study seeks to find out how the damage mechanisms of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs), subjected to the mode-I and mode-II fracture tests, are affected while those are modified by...journal article 2021
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Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)The development of health indicators (HI) of diagnostic and prognostic potential from generally uninformative raw sensor data is both a challenge and an essential feature for data‐driven diagnostics and prognostics of composite structures. In this study, new damage‐sensitive features, developed from strains acquired with Fiber Bragg Grating ...journal article 2021
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Zarouchas, D. (author), van Diën, C.C.J. (author), Eleftheroglou, N. (author)This paper presents the results for an experimental campaign of in-situ impact during tension-tension fatigue loading for open-hole carbon fibre reinforced polymer specimens. High-speed low energy impact was introduced to the specimen with the use of a canon, which was attached to testing bench enabling the impact without the need to remove...journal article 2021
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Saeedifar, M. (author), Saghafi, Hamed (author), Mohammadi, Reza (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)The present study evaluates the toughening capability of electrospun PA66 nanofibers for carbon/epoxy composite laminates subjected to mode II loading conditions at elevated temperatures. The Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) test showed that the glass transition temperature of the produced nanofibers is in a range of ∼60–80 °C. Accordingly,...journal article 2021
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Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)In order to reduce aircraft downtimes Condition-Based-Maintenance (CBM) is a topic gaining increased popularity in recent years. However, to apply such maintenance policies reliable health monitoring techniques should be implemented. Two state of the art monitoring techniques, namely Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG) and Acoustic Emission (AE) are...conference paper 2021
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Saeedifar, M. (author), Saleh, M. (author), Nijhuis, Peter (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)This study is devoted to the use of acoustic emission technique for a comprehensive damage assessment, that is, damage detection, localization, and classification, of an aeronautical metal-to-composite bonded panel. The structure comprised a titanium panel adhesively bonded to carbon fiber–reinforced plastic omega stringers. The panel contained...journal article 2021
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Li, X. (author), Saeedifar, M. (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)This paper investigates the loading rate effect on both mechanical properties and damage accumulation process of [0°2/90°4]S carbon fiber-polymer laminates under tensile loading. In-situ edge observations, Acoustic Emission and Digital Image Correlation techniques were utilized simultaneously to monitor the state of damage in real time. Results...journal article 2021
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Saghafi, Hamed (author), Nikbakht, Ali (author), Mohammadi, Reza (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)The geometrical features of nanofibers, such as nanomat thickness and the diameter of nanofibers, have a significant influence on the toughening behavior of composite laminates. In this study, carbon/epoxy laminates were interleaved with polysulfone (PSF) nanofibrous mats and the effect of the PSF nanomat thickness on the fracture toughness...journal article 2021
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Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author), Benedictus, R. (author)A case study is presented in which the first steps are made towards the development of a structural health monitoring (SHM) data fusion framework. For this purpose, a composite single-stiffener panel is subjected to compression-compression fatigue loading (R = 10). The carbon-epoxy panel contains an artificial disbond of 30 mm, which was...conference paper 2021
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Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)Real-time Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of aeronautical structural components is a technology persistently investigated the last years by researchers and engineers to potentially reduce the cost and/or implementation of scheduled maintenance tasks. To this end, various types of sensors have been proposed to serve this role, e.g....conference paper 2021
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Kupski, J.A. (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)The goal of this study is to explore new topologies for adhesively bonded composite overlap joints in order to improve their strength under tensile loading. Multiple stacked overlaps, also referred as finger joints, are compared with single overlap topologies. The quasi-static tensile behaviour of single lap joints with two overlap lengths 12...journal article 2020
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Li, X. (author), Kupski, J.A. (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)This study investigates the early fatigue damage of cross-ply carbon/epoxy laminates. The aim is to unfold the damage accumulation process, understand the interaction between different damage mechanisms, and quantify their contribution to stiffness degradation. Tension-tension fatigue tests were performed, while edge observation and DIC...journal article 2020
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Santos, Luis F.P. (author), Ribeiro, Bruno (author), Hein, Luis R.O. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Botelho, Edson C. (author), Costa, Michelle L. (author)This work concerns the fatigue behavior at three different temperature conditions (−40, 20, and 80°C) and the addition of multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) into a carbon-fiber reinforced poly(ether-imide) composite. The incorporation of MWCNT into the composite increased the tensile strength and Young's modulus by up 5 and 2%, respectively....journal article 2020
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Khoshmanesh, S. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)The adhesively-bonded connections in a wind turbine blade, e.g. the spar cap to shear web joins, are key elements for the structural integrity of the blade. These joins can suffer from damage at the bond-line which can propagate through the structure and compromise the operation of the blade. In this paper, we determine the damping properties...journal article 2020
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Eleftheroglou, N. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)Data driven probabilistic methodologies have found increasing use the last decade and provide a platform for the remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of composite structures utilizing health-monitoring data. Of particular interest is the RUL prediction of composite structures that either underperform or outperform due to unexpected...journal article 2020