Highly Impact-Resistant Silk Fiber Thermoplastic Composites

Silk fibers combine good stiffness and strength with a very high strain to failure and are as such highly promising to realize composites with high impact resistance. It is shown that to realize this potential it is quite beneficial to employ matrix materials of high strain to failure, particularly thermoplastic matrices. High impact...

Residual strength of bonded stiffened panels: prediction and experimental verification

This report presents results of residual strength calculations, carried out on cracked panel configurations of various designs and provided with bonded stiffeners. The calculations were carried out using the computer program BOND. The results of these calculations are compared with results of residual strength tests, performed on panels of...

Numerical calculation of the compliance of a tapered double cantilever beam specimen for testing mode 1 toughness properties of adhesive joints