Published in Applied Composite Materials
3D fabrics are in various forms and shapes and are used in different applications of technical textiles. The functional purpose of their use is primarily to create a barrier or maintain a distance between two mediums. Fabrics from knitting or weaving machines are mostly not in their end product shape. They have to be joined with different forms of ...
Published in Applied Composite Materials
The dynamic response of freestanding carbon fiber reinforced composite sandwich plates with square honeycomb cores of different relative densities subjected to water blast is investigated by numerical simulations. The constitutive models are validated by quasi-static compression response comparisons of numerical simulations and theoretical calculat...
Published in Applied Composite Materials
Lightweight structures constitute an eminently important solution to the conservation of limited resources of energy in aeronautics and vehicle engineering. The increasing necessity to implement lightweight construction concepts for framework structures due to their vast application makes requirement-adapted node structures attractive for fiber-rei...
Published in Applied Composite Materials
The performance of carbon fibre-reinforced composites is dependent to a great extent on the properties of fibre-matrix interface. In this research, based on the reviewed surface modification technique and inspired by the in situ growth of three-dimensional graphene coatings on nanomaterials, a new method of in situ growth of a graphene-related stru...
Published in Applied Composite Materials
Based on continuum damage mechanics (CDM), a multi-scale progressive damage model (PDM) is developed to analyze the uniaxial compression failure mechanisms of 2D triaxially braided composite (2DTBC). The multi-scale PDM starts from the micro-scale analysis which obtains the stiffness and strength properties of fiber tows by a representative unit ce...
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Carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites have been increasingly used by aerospace and other industries for their high specific stiffness and strength properties. When in service, non-destructive testing (NDT) methods are required to monitor and evaluate the structural integrity. Microwave-based detection techniques offer the advantages of ...
Published in Applied Composite Materials
A novel method of biomimetic surface modification was used for aramid fibres aiming to enhance the interface properties between epoxy resin and the modified aramid fibre. Inspired by the composition of adhesive proteins in mussels, a thin layer of poly(dopamine) (PDA) was self-polymerized onto the surface of the aramid fibre. The graphene oxide (GO...
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Warp-knitted spacer fabrics are considered, which are plates or shells composed of two knitted plane layers connected by vertical beams. Our aim is to compute the effective stiffness and permeability of such spacer fabrics on the basis of their structure and properties of yarns and the monofil. In order to reduce the computational effort and simpli...
Published in Applied Composite Materials
Published in Applied Composite Materials
Networked fabrics are a type of three-dimensional multilayer fabrics having predetermined interconnections between layers by combining yarns from two adjacent sublayers into one. This paper reports the research on the influence of structural parameters on the ballistic performance of networked fabrics using finite element analysis in parallel with ...
