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Kovacs Nora, Nora (author)
The growing use of composite materials in engineering applications accelerated the demand for computational methods, such as multiscale modeling, to accurately predict their behavior. Combining different materials with target mechanical properties helps achieve optimal structural performance. Nevertheless, the complex nature of composite...
master thesis 2023
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Bruinenberg, Ingmar (author)
Composite structures are used more frequently in newly designed aircrafts. This results in new difficulties compared to conventional metals during operational life. Especially, the material properties of two different materials can cause side effects, which are unwanted in a structure, for example thermal stresses. Many reports have been written...
master thesis 2022
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Coenen, Robert (author)
Improvement in the SHM of composite materials requires an enhanced understanding of the damage accumulation processes and helps in the way towards lighter, more optimized, and more sustainable aerospace structures. The Digital Twin concept has the potential to address this problem and may revolutionize the designing, certifying, maintaining, and...
master thesis 2021
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Gertsen, Thomas (author)
Wind turbines are operating in harsh environmental conditions, especially offshore. An implication of these conditions, caused by the impact of precipitation, is the development of leading edge erosion (LEE). This leads to degraded blade surfaces that result in lower aerodynamic performance. Leading edge erosion is researched in many ways but...
master thesis 2021
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Uijterwaal, Paulien (author)
The failure of composite laminates is most commonly evaluated through deterministic approaches. However, even though these traditional methods predict the failure well on average, they cannot take into account the inherent probabilistic aspect of failure mechanics. Thus, reliability methods allow for a better structural assessment and improve...
master thesis 2021
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De Jonghe, Thomas (author)
High performance continuous fiber-reinforced composites are becoming increasingly important in the aerospace industry. In these structures, internal damage is often created and propagated throughout the lifetime, having a negative impact on the structural properties. In order to allow for condition-based maintenance, there is a need for reliable...
master thesis 2020
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van Diën, Casper (author)
This research experimentally investigates the effects of an impact event during fatigue loading of a CFRP structure. Open-hole specimens were impacted in-situ during a short interruption of a tension-tension cyclic loading program. The impact was aimed directly below the central hole, with the critical fatigue damage path being left and right of...
master thesis 2020
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van den Bos, Niek (author)
The field of prognostics on composites is relatively young, and research is focused on constant amplitude fatigue (CAF) loading, whereas variable amplitude fatigue (VAF) loading is more common in actual use-cases. Therefore in this research, the feasibility of different in-situ, data-driven probabilistic models is studied for prognostics on...
master thesis 2020
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Taams, M. (author)
A lot of studies have been done on Acoustic Emission (AE) covering a wide range of materials and applications. Within a structure that is under loading, AE has proven to be useful in determining the type, location and accumulation of damage within a material. The general goal is to use AE for inservice monitoring of structurally loaded parts....
master thesis 2020
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Gois De Freitas, João (author)
Adhesively bonded joints have proven to outperform their mechanically fastened joint counterparts, as they present a more structurally efficient method of load transfer, lower stress concentrations and better fatigue performance at reduced weight. In the specific case of the Adhesively Bonded Single Lap Joint (ABSLJ), bending-induced stresses...
master thesis 2019
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Bobeldijk, Mark (author)
In general, damage models for Fibre-Reinforced Polymers (FRPs) can be divided into two categories: Continuum Damage Models (CDMs) and Fracture Mechanics Damage Models (FMDMs). Damage models within each of these categories are advantageous for different type of failure mechanisms. Therefore, it is of interest to develop a unified framework in...
master thesis 2018
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Mansvelder, Jasmijn (author)
The high specific strength and stiffness of composite materials have resulted in a widespread introduction of composite structures in the commercial aviation industry. Although composite materials offer the possibility to design lightweight structures, they also suffer from complex failure modes of which damage progression is badly understood....
master thesis 2018
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Broer, Agnes (author)
Fatigue life prediction models, used in the design and analysis of cyclic loaded structures, often require experimental data in order to interpolate or extrapolate fatigue behaviour to different loading conditions. Due to scatter in fatigue life data, as well as model input requirements of several S-N curves, large numbers of experimental tests...
master thesis 2018
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de Zeeuw, Chantal (author)
This thesis takes an initial step in the research on the long term behaviour of composite-to-metal bonds that are loaded under hygrothermal conditions. It focuses on the response and behaviour of the adhesive in these bonds under moisture and loading. The thesis is inconclusive on the effect of loading on the water uptake. The load level and...
master thesis 2018
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Milis, Maarten (author)
master thesis 2017
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Carpi, Andrea (author)
This research investigates the role of how Finite Element simulation models reproduced progressively crushed Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) parts. The proposed work is motivated by the research questions concerning what are the relevant critical modeling strategies that accurately reproduce the behavior of in-plane crushed laminated...
master thesis 2017
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van Oostrum, Alexander (author)
Composite structures are increasingly applied for their unique set of properties. However, their behavior is not yet fully understood, amongst others, due to complex interactions of failure modes. This research implemented a blended stress-strain and fracture mechanics based progressive damage analysis model, based on a Continuum Damage Model ...
master thesis 2017
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Mitrousias, Alexander (author)
As the demand on new lightweight materials increases due to economic and environmental reasons, fiber reinforced plastics seem an interesting solution. In order to maximize their potential, ways have to be found to introduce damage tolerant designs. To this end, in the present exercise, the damage caused by cyclic loading is investigated.<br/...
master thesis 2017
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van Dongen, björn (author)
Despite great strides made in understanding and modelling Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (FRPs), their full potential is held back by the inability to accurately predict failure. Contrary to past attempts focused on isolated application of stress-strain and fracture mechanics based failure theories, this research builds upon the existing framework by...
master thesis 2017
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Shirke, R.V. (author)
master thesis 2017
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