Abstract Fibre metal laminates (FMLs) are attractive construction materials, especially for use in aerospace and transport facilities. Throughout their service life, thin-walled structures made of FMLs exposed to static dynamic loads, as well corrosion the unfavourable influence environmental conditions. The paper presents an experimental analysis combined mechanical long-term behaviour carbon-...

The European standard EN 438-2 (2019) describes a method to assess the resistance cracking of high-pressure laminate (HPL). In setup, samples’ shrinkage at temperature 50 °C for 6 h is restrained by metal clamp. resulting tensile stress may lead laminate. With intention gain additional insight into parameters and influencing factors test, 43 laminates was tested in accordance with prolonged tes...

The current trend shows an increasing demand for composites due to their high stiffness to weight ratio and the recent progress in manufacturing and cost reduction of composites. To combine high strength and stiffness in a cost-effective way, composites are often joined with steel or aluminum. However, joining of thermoset composite materials is challenging because circular holes are often used...

We study the time evolution in elastoplasticity within the rate-independent framework of generalized standard materials. Our particular interest is the formation and the evolution of microstructure. Providing models where existence proofs are possible is a challenging task since the presence of microstructure comes along with a lack of convexity and, hence, compactness arguments cannot be appli...

This paper presents the study of strengthening R/C beams with large circular and square opening located at flexure zone by Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) laminates. A total of five beams were tested to failure under four point loading to investigate the structural behavior including crack patterns, failure mode, ultimate load and load deflection behaviour. Test results show that large o...

Complex structures manufactured using low-pressure vacuum bag-only (VBO) prepreg processing are more susceptible to defects than flat laminates due to complex compaction conditions present at sharp corners. Consequently, effective defect mitigation strategies are required to produce structural parts. In this study, we investigated the relationships between laminate properties, processing condit...

In recent years, the improvement of properties of natural fibre reinforced laminates over the pure polymeric matrix has been thoroughly investigated with the aim of providing a possible replacement of E-glass fibre reinforced composites for some large-volume applications. In the present study, the properties of a jute/polyester laminate are compared with those yielded by two E-glass fibre woven...

A new approach is developed for finite element modeling of muiti-layer laminated beams. Within the beam element, the laminate is decomposed as muttiple basic layers, such as base beam layers of metal like, soft-core layers of adhesives, and soft coating layers of polymers, and mass and stiffness matrices of these basic layers are assembled together to generate those matrices for the beam elemen...