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van Kuijk, J.J.A. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
An important figure was omitted from this article, as Fig. 11 was repeated in Fig. 12. The image below shows the correct version of Fig. 12 that should have appeared in the article. [Figure presented]
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van Kuijk, J.J.A. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
The substantiation of fatigue crack closure corrections is disputed, based on the closure stress definition. The ΔK<sub>eff</sub> equation lacks a physical explanation. An inconsistency is observed between the opening stress S<sub>op<sub>phen</sub></sub> as used by this equation and the physical opening stress S<sub>op<sub>phys</sub></sub>....
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van Kuijk, J.J.A. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
To improve resolution of in-situ measurement of crack closure and opening in fatigue, potential drop (PD) measurement technique has been further developed to measure thousands of times through each load cycle with high precision. The results are interpreted with physical phenomena like strain, Poisson's effect, piezo-resistivity, plasticity,...
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Quan, D. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author), Murphy, Neal (author), Ivanković, Alojz (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
Interlaying thermoplastic veils into carbon fibre/epoxy composites has proved to significantly increase the interlaminar fracture toughness. The main toughening mechanism is thermoplastic fibre bridging for the non-meltable veils and matrix toughening for the meltable veils. Herein, to take advantage of different toughening mechanisms, hybrid...
journal article 2020
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Quan, D. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author), Tsakoniatis, Ioannis (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
Efficient joining of hybrid thermoset/thermoplastic composite joints is critical to produce high performance lightweight structures while keeping the cost low. Herein, a high-power UV-irradiation technique was proposed to rapidly active the surfaces of PEEK and PPS composites for the following co-cure joining with epoxy composites. A single...
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Quan, D. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author), Tsakoniatis, Ioannis (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author), Scarselli, Gennaro (author), Murphy, Neal (author), Ivanković, Alojz (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
A high-power UV-irradiation technique was proposed for the surface treatment of PPS and PEEK composites, aiming to achieve good adhesion with epoxy adhesives. The composite substrates were rapidly UV-irradiated for a duration of between 2–30s, and then bonded using an aerospace film adhesive to produce joints. Tensile lap-shear strength and...
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Quan, D. (author), Deegan, Brian (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author), Murphy, Neal (author), Ivanković, Alojz (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
The compatibility between the majority of thermoplastic veils (TPVs) and epoxies is typically poor, owing to the inherently low surface energies of thermoplastics. This tends to largely affect the toughening performance of TPVs as interlayer materials of carbon fibre/epoxy composites. The traditional methods for surface activation of...
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Zhao, Yuan (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Wu, Zengwen (author), Zhou, Zhengong (author), Fang, Guodong (author), Zhang, Jiazhen (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
Finite-width-correction factors (FWCF) are required for GLARE to accurately predict fatigue crack growth using linear elastic fracture mechanics. As demonstrated in earlier work, these factors effectively correct for the change in specimen compliance, which in GLARE relates to intact fibre layers and the formation of delaminations between...
journal article 2019
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Zhao, Y. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Zhou, Zhengong (author), Fang, Guodong (author), Zhang, Jiazhen (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
In general, a finite width correction to stress intensity factor (SIF) is required in the fatigue crack growth. The finite width correction factor can be explained physically from the energy point of view. It is assumed that the finite width correction factor primarily constitutes an energy correction factor, i.e. it corrects the applied load...
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Eleftheroglou, N. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
A novel framework to fuse structural health monitoring (SHM) data from different in-situ monitoring techniques is proposed aiming to develop a hyper-feature towards more effective prognostics. A state-of-the-art Non-Homogenous Hidden Semi Markov Model (NHHSMM) is utilized to model the damage accumulation of composite structures, subjected to...
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Quan, H. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
Plastic energy dissipation is inevitable during fatigue crack growth. There have been previous attempts reported in literature to correlate the plastic dissipated energy (dW/dN) to fatigue crack growth rate (da/dN). However, at a given dW/dN, the da/dN changes with the ratio of minimum and maximum loads, known as the stress ratio. This paper...
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van Kuijk, J.J.A. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
This paper discusses the appropriateness of crack length as a reference dimension for fatigue damage. Current discussion on short crack versus long crack data is still divided between various approaches to model small crack growth. A proper physical explanation of the probable cause of the apparent differences between short crack and long...
journal article 2018
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Amaral, L. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
In an attempt to understand quasi-static delamination growth under mixed mode loading conditions from a physics-based perspective, this work first evaluated cracking in isotropic materials. The critical Strain Energy Density (SED) approach is adopted, because physically the onset of crack growth is expected to occur when the energy available...
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Pascoe, J.A. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
Current methods for prediction of fatigue crack growth are based on empirical correlations which do not take the crack growth behaviour within a single cycle into account. To improve these prediction methods, more understanding of the physical mechanisms of crack growth is required. In this research the acoustic emission technique was used to...
journal article 2018
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Yao, Liaojun (author), Sun, Yi (author), Guo, Licheng (author), Lyu, Xiuqi (author), Zhao, Meiying (author), Jia, Liyong (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
Fatigue delamination in multidirectional composite laminates was experimentally investigated in present study. Both the Paris relation and a modified Paris relation (with a new similitude parameter) were employed to interpret fatigue delamination with significant fibre bridging. The results clearly demonstrated that fatigue delamination was...
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Usman, M. (author), Pascoe, J.A. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
The effect of temperature on fatigue crack growth in epoxy adhesive bonds was investigated for a range of temperatures from -55 to 80[U+202F]°C. The fatigue crack growth behaviour was characterised using both strain energy release rate (SERR) and by measurements of energy dissipation. It was found that for a given maximum SERR, or a given...
journal article 2018
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Amaral, L. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
Due to the lack of fundamental knowledge of the physics behind delamination growth, certification authorities currently require that composite structures in aircraft are designed such that any delamination will not grow. This usually leads to an overdesign of the structure, hampering weight reductions. In real structures, delaminations tend...
journal article 2017
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Yao, L. (author), Sun, Y. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Zhao, M (author)
Fibre bridging can significantly enhance delamination resistance making the use of a single Paris resistance curve to determine fatigue crack growth insufficient. An empirical Paris-type relation has been developed in a previous study to take fibre bridging into account in fatigue delamination growth. This relation was developed by correlating...
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Yao, L. (author), Sun, Y. (author), Zhao, M (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
This paper aims to investigate stress ratio effect on fibre bridging significance in mode I fatigue delamination growth of composite materials. Fatigue resistance curves (R-curves) of different stress ratios are determined and compared with the quasi-static R-curve. The fatigue R-curve of a high stress ratio is similar to the quasi-static...
journal article 2017
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garcia, C (author), Lotz, T (author), Martinez, M.J. (author), Artemev, A (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
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