Unfolding the Early Fatigue Damage Accumulation for Cross-ply Laminates

Fatigue damage of composite laminates has attracted considerable attention from research community and industry, in view that laminated structures are inevitable to suffer from fatigue loading during their service life. It is rather complicated to understand and explain, what governs the initiation, accumulation, interaction (synergy or...

Compression-Compression and Tension-Compression Fatigue of Textile Carbon-Epoxy Composites: Experimental Testing and Instrumentation

Efficient design of woven composite structures is limited by a knowledge gap in predictive modeling of their behaviour. Fatigue modeling in particular is difficult and limited by a lack of experimental data. For compression-compression (C-C) or tension-compression (T-C) fatigue, experimental results in literature are uncommon. In this master...

Application of digital image correlation to glass fibre-reinforced composites under transverse tensile loading

Fibre-reinforced polymer composites (FRPs) have been used in structural applications for years mainly due to their outstanding specific mechanical properties. In this thesis, the characterisation of the strain field upon transverse tensile loading of glass fibre-reinforced polymers (GFRPs) was investigated by applying digital image correlation ...