[HTML][HTML] Optimizing dual-scale wettability of epoxy resin on large-tow carbon fiber via tension-driven capillary wicking

Y Song, C Liu, H Li, K Xu, H Geng, H Wu, L Zu… - Composites Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Benefiting from the cost-performance advantage, large-tow carbon fiber (LCF) is under the
rapid development and shows great application potential in various products like wind …

Longitudinal debonding in unidirectional fibre-reinforced composites: Numerical analysis of the effect of interfacial properties

S AhmadvashAghbash, C Breite, M Mehdikhani… - … Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Longitudinal fibre-matrix debonding is governed by interfacial strength, fracture toughness,
thermal residual stresses, friction, and matrix plasticity. The proposed finite element model …

In-situ synchrotron computed tomography tensile testing of composite specimens to estimate fibre strength Weibull parameters

F Mesquita, C Breite, SV Lomov, Y Swolfs - Composites Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
A methodology is presented for the retrieval of fibre strength Weibull parameters using in-
situ synchrotron computed tomography tensile testing of unidirectional composite …

Synthesising realistic 2D microstructures of unidirectional fibre-reinforced composites with a generative adversarial network

R Guo, M Alves, M Mehdikhani, C Breite… - Composites Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The microstructure governs the behaviour of unidirectional fibre-reinforced composites. In
this study, we developed a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN) to …

Social inequality analysis of fiber bundle model statistics and prediction of materials failure

S Biswas, BK Chakrabarti - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Inequalities are abundant in a society with a number of agents competing for a limited
amount of resources. Statistics on such social inequalities are usually represented by the …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of fibre misalignment in an impregnated fibre bundle on stress concentrations

M Jafarypouria, SV Lomov, B Mahato… - Composites Part A …, 2024 - Elsevier
This work investigates the stress redistribution around a broken fibre in a unidirectional
impregnated fibre bundle accounting for misalignment of fibres. The study reveals, a …

[PDF][PDF] Aligning fibre break models for composites with the observable micro-scale material behaviour

C Breite - KULeuven, Leuven, 2021 - researchgate.net
My doctoral studies have been conducted as a part of the FiBreMoD project, which has
received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation …

Inequality indices applied to statistical physics of criticality in an impregnated fiber bundle model

SV Lomov, SG Abaimov, C Breite, Y Swolfs - Mechanics of Composite …, 2023 - Springer
Inequality indices (Hirsch and Kolkata) are used in social science and scientometrics.
Previously, they were shown to have useful applications in statistical physics of criticality in a …

Modelling on stress redistribution around broken fibers for fiber reinforced plastic with poor fiber distribution uniformity

F Zhu, D Yu, J Tian, Y Cheng, S Zhang - Polymer Composites, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In order to calculate stress redistribution after a fiber breaking for unidirectional fiber
reinforced plastic (FRP) with practically poor fiber distribution uniformity, a new and efficient …

Statistical modeling and reliability analysis of large-scale multi-tendon fiber-reinforced polymer cables

Z Peng, X Wang, Z Wu - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, the classic fiber bundle model is exploited in the statistical modeling of fiber-
reinforced polymer (FRP) cables. Important features of large-scale multi-tendon FRP cable …