Service lifetimes of polymers and polymer composites are impacted by environmental
ageing. The validation of new composites and their environmental durability involves costly …

Carbon fibres are widely used in modern industrial applications as they are high-strength,
light in weight and more reliable than other materials. The increase in the usage of carbon …

This study investigates the effects of deionized water, seawater, and solutions with various
concentrations (5% and 10% by mass) of HCl and NaOH on the physical and mechanical …

Polymer materials and adhesively bonded metal joints are subjected to different harsh
environments, resulting in degradation in their structural and mechanical properties. The …

Damage onset and adiabatic heating of a pultruded Glass Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (GFRP)
composite was investigated using compression tests at low, intermediate and high strain …

This paper presented a progressive damage model of pultruded GFRP based on the Tsai–
Wu criterion. The constitution of the damage model was coded by UMAT subroutine in …

Glass fiber and glass fiber-reinforced polymers are of interest to engineers for a wide variety
of applications, owing to their low weight, high relative strength, and relative low cost …

Composite materials are known to have many advantages and they can be used in the
manufacture of a wide variety of products which make them commercially valuable …

The purpose of this investigation is to study the performance degradation mechanism of
CRRP composite materials used in the structure of a solar UAV under acid rain environment …

This work presents a numerical approach to multi-routines based on experiments, and, with
a target to analyse strength of a cross-ply glass fibre reinforced plastics (GFRP) composite …