• Refine Query
  • Source
  • Publication year
  • to
  • Language
  • 1
  • Tagged with
  • 3
  • 3
  • 3
  • 3
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
1

Permeability of impacted coated composite laminates

Findley, Benjamin Carter 08 1900 (has links)
No description available.
2

Damage states in laminated composite three-point bend specimens - an experimental/analytical correlation study

Starbuck, J. Michael 08 August 2007 (has links)
Damage states in laminated composites were studied by considering the model problem of a laminated beam subjected to three-point bending. A combination of experimental and theoretical research techniques was used to correlate the experimental results with the analytical stress distributions. The analytical solution procedure was based on the stress formulation approach of the mathematical theory of elasticity. The solution procedure is capable of calculating the ply-level stresses and beam displacements for any laminated beam of finite length using the generalized plane deformation or plane stress state assumption. The beam lamination can be any arbitrary combination of monoclinic, orthotropic, transversely-isotropic, and isotropic layers. Prior to conducting the experimental phase of the study, the results from preliminary analyses were examined. Significant effects in the ply-level stress distributions were seen depending on the fiber orientation, aspect ratio, and whether or not a grouped or interspersed stacking sequence was used. The experimental investigation was conducted to determine the different damage modes in laminated three-point bend specimens. The test matrix consisted of three-point bend specimens of 0° unidirectional, cross-ply, and quasi-isotropic stacking sequences. The dependence of the damage initiation loads and ultimate failure loads were studied, and their relation to damage susceptibility and damage tolerance of the beam configuration was discussed. Damage modes were identified by visual inspection of the damaged specimens using an optical microscope. The four fundamental damage mechanisms identified were delaminations, matrix cracking, fiber breakage, and crushing. The correlation study between the experimental results and the analytical results was performed for the midspan deflection, indentation, damage modes, and damage susceptibility. The correlation was primarily based on the distributions of the in-plane component of shear stress, t<sub>xz</sub>. The exceptions were for the case of a very small aspect ratio (less than 1.0) where the crushing mode of damage was predicted based on the maximum contact pressure, and for very large aspect ratios (greater than 12.0) where a maximum tensile bending stress criterion was used for predicting the damage initiation loads. / Ph. D.
3

Experimental and numerical analyses of damage in laminate composites under low velocity impact loading

Minnaar, Karel 08 1900 (has links)
No description available.

Page generated in 0.1374 seconds