Composite Material Damage Processes

Drilling Damage in Composite Material

The characteristics of carbon fibre reinforced laminates have widened their use from aerospace to domestic appliances, and new possibilities for their usage emerge almost daily. In many of the possible applications, the laminates need to be drilled for assembly purposes. It is known that a drilling process that reduces the drill thrust force can decrease the risk of delamination. In this work, ...

Optimum composite material design

— The microstructure identification problem is treated : given certain phases in given volume fractions, how to mix them in aperiodic cell so that the effective material constants of the periodic composite lie the closest possible to certain prescribed values ? The problem is studied for the linear conduction équation. It is stated in terms of optimal con trol theory ; the admissible micro geom...

Composite Material and Optical Fibres

Bone: A Composite Natural Material

Composite materials are solids with two or more distinct constituents at a larger scale than an atomic one (Hull, 1981). In accordance to this definition, materials or biological tissues such as wood, dentin and bone are regarded as composite natural materials (Cowin, 2001; Lakes, 2003; Park & Lakes, 1992). Bone is regarded as a natural composite material, which appears as it is in nature, rath...

Composite material hollow antiresonant fibers.

We study novel designs of hollow-core antiresonant fibers comprising multiple materials in their core-boundary membrane. We show that these types of fibers still satisfy an antiresonance condition and compare their properties to those of an ideal single-material fiber with an equivalent thickness and refractive index. As a practical consequence of this concept, we discuss the first realization ...