This paper presents a comparative study of the geometrical optimization mechanical wedge–barrel anchors for prestressed carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) rods. Various anchor configurations were simulated using three-dimensional finite-element (FE) models. The FE models validated draw-ins wedges, which measured in static tensile tests. consisted steel barrel and aluminum taking advantage p...

The article presents the milled surface quality of Uni-Directional Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (UD-CFRP) composites from Taguchi’s and grey relational analysis. novelty is demonstrating possibility detecting defects in polymer during milling using SEM material used for this study UD-CFRP composite laminates made by hand-layup process. All operations were carried out a solid tungsten carbide...

A hardening response is often observed for shear-dominated large deformation of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics (CFRP). This non-linear modelled by fitting a strain law against experimental stress-strain curves. Inspired crystal plasticity framework, phenomenological model developed to capture matrix shearing and fibre rotation CFRP under finite strain. first verified simple shear transverse c...