The production and consequential waste of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) is increasing owing to its utilization in various industries like automotive, aviation, electronics …
QG He, X Chen - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
A Whipple shield is a double-plate structure commonly used to protect spacecraft from space fragments. The space fragments hit the outer plate and break into a debris cloud with …
Thin-ply technology provides increasing possibilities for composite structures, expanding the design space for ply thickness and laminate layup. This study examines the effects of ply …
X Hua, R Higuchi, T Yokozeki - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Tapered CFRP laminates formed by dropping off plies are extensively used on modern aircraft due to the special design requirement for certain components. Thin-ply composites …
This paper demonstrated the benefits of thin plies for enhancing the flexural response of conventional composites at elevated temperatures. Two types of carbon fabrics ie, traditional …
S Oshima, R Higuchi, S Kobayashi - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2023 - Elsevier
The effects of microdefects on cracking behavior in cross-ply carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) laminates was characterized as a function of defect size. A single artificial defect …
The kinking mechanism in unidirectional carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) needs be characterized to improve structural design. Thus, we performed a uniaxial compression …
Attributed to the exponential growth in computing power, over the past two decades, computational micromechanics has emerged as an indispensable branch in the field of …
In situ X-ray synchrotron radiation computed tomography (SRCT) of carbon fiber composite laminates reveals the first-ever qualitative and quantitative comparisons of 3D progressive …