The subject of improving the fracture toughness of fibre composites is receiving significant
attention because a critical design criterion in damage tolerant fibre composites is the …

This paper reviews crack tip asymptotic fields in generic plane anisotropic media, rigorously
categorising about 400 studies devoted to the determination of the asymptote coefficients …

The effects of the hole size and the specimen width on the fracture behavior of several
woven fabric composite plates are experimentally investigated in tension. It is shown in this …

This article applies the finite element over-deterministic (FEOD) method to determine the
coefficients of the crack tip asymptotic fields in an anisotropic plane. This method relies on …

The size and character of the damage zone at the tip of sharp notches in fiber reinforced
plastic laminates have been investigated. The variables studied were the stress intensity …

A technique is presented for determining stress intensity factors from thermoelastic data
away from the crack tip. The concept, which is based on equilibrium, compatibility and the J …

In this work, the effect of surface cracks on strength has been investigated theoretically and
experimentally for glass/epoxy filament wound pipes, which are mainly used for bazooka …

This paper demonstrates ability to evaluate the stress intensity factor in a double-edge
cracked finite [0 13/90 5/0 13] graphite-epoxy orthotropic tensile composite from J-integral …

Unlike with isotropy materials, determining stress intensity factors in orthotropic composites
is complicated as they can depend on constitutive properties and principal material …

Accurately clarifying the influence of cracks on the mechanical behaviors of unidirectional
fiber-reinforced composites (UD FRCs) is of great significance for the structural integrity …