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Advanced Structured Materials

Volume 17

Series Editors
Andreas Öchsner
Lucas F. M. da Silva
Holm Altenbach

For further volumes:

http://www.springer.com/series/8611
Mohd Nasir Tamin
Editor

Damage and Fracture

of Composite Materials
and Structures

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Mohd Nasir Tamin
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
UTM Skudai
81310 Johor
Malaysia
e-mail: taminmn@gmail.com

ISSN 1869-8433 e-ISSN 1869-8441

ISBN 978-3-642-23658-7 e-ISBN 978-3-642-23659-4
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-23659-4
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Preface

This book compiles recent advances in research and development in the area of
damage and fracture of composite materials and structures. Majority of these
chapters have been presented and discussed at the Special Session on Damage and
Fracture of Composite Materials and Structures of the 4th International Confer-
ence on Advanced Computational Engineering and Experimenting (ACE-X), held
during 8–10 July, 2010 in Paris, France. Invited chapters on selected topics are
included. The scope of the book covers experimental, analytical and computational
aspects of the mechanics of fibrous composites. The chapters report on updates
related to testing of composite samples for determination of mechanical properties,
discussion on the observed failure mechanisms and numerical modeling of
deformation response of the composites to loading. Behavior of fibrous compos-
ites, sandwich structures and fiber-metal laminates to impact and blast loading are
discussed. Response of composite structures under both static and dynamic loading
is described.
Each chapter is written as a self-contained report on recent research works of
the respective authors. However, many issues related to damage and fracture of the
composite are common. These include dominant fracture mechanisms, damage-
based models and simulation approaches. The book is suitable not only for
research, but also for advanced reference and applications.
We acknowledge contributions from authors, many of whom are principal
researchers of their projects on characterization of composite materials and
structures. Thank you to Hassan Osman Ali for assistance in preparing this
monograph.

Johor, Malaysia, 2011 M. N. Tamin

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Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
M. N. Tamin

Mode-I Crack Control by SMA Fiber with

a Special Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
M. Jin and S. H. Chen

Micromechanical Analysis of Mode I Crack Growth

in Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Daniel Trias and Pere Maimí

Modeling of Spalling Effect on Toughening in Fiber

Reinforced Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
C. Wang, N. F. Piaceski and K. M. Soares

Evolution Characteristics of Delamination Damage

in CFRP Composites Under Transverse Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
S. S. R. Koloor, A. Abdul-Latif, X. J. Gong and M. N. Tamin

Indentation of Sandwich Beams with Functionally Graded Skins

and Transversely Flexible Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Y. Mohammadi and S. M. R. Khalili

Micromechanical Fibre-Recruitment Model of Liquid Crystalline

Polymer Reinforcing Polycarbonate Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
K. L. Goh and L. P. Tan

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Moisture Absorption Effects on the Resistance to Interlaminar

Fracture of Woven Glass/Epoxy Composite Laminates . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
X. J. Gong, K. J. Wong and M. N. Tamin

The Study of Response of High Performance Fiber-Reinforced

Composites to Impact Loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
O. Saligheh, R. Eslami Farsani, R. Khajavi and M. Forouharshad

Dynamic Fracture Toughness of Composite Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

C. Rubio-González, J. Wang, J. Martinez and H. Kaur

Impact Study on Aircraft Type Laminate Composite Plate;

Experimental, Failure Criteria and Element Model Review . . . . . . . . 157
Y. Aminanda

The Blast Response of Sandwich Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

M. Yazid Yahya, W. J. Cantwell, G. S. Langdon and G. N. Nurick

The High Velocity Impact Response of Self-Reinforced

Polypropylene Fibre Metal Laminates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
M. R. Abdullah and W. J. Cantwell

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

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