This review paper summarizes the current state-of-art and challenges for the future
developments of fiber-reinforced composites for structural applications with multifunctional …

Composite panels are widely used as structural members due to their high strength-to-
weight ratio. In order to reduce further weight, cutouts or notches are introduced in these …

The capability to accurately analyse the response of multi-directional composite laminates
during impact events is of high importance for the design of lightweight aircraft structures. In …

Angle-ply carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) crush tubes were tested in drop weight
impact experiments. High-fidelity computational modelling of the dynamic impact response …

This paper provides an overview of the current approaches to predict damage and failure of
composite laminates at the micro-(constituent), meso-(ply), and macro-(structural) levels …

This paper presents an extension of the semi-discrete damage model (SD2M)(Nguyen and
Waas, 2020a, Nguyen and Waas, 2020b), implemented using the finite element (FE) …

Countersunk holes are used in bolted joints for creating non-protruding smooth surfaces. As
a first step towards a detailed progressive damage and failure analysis of bolted joint …

The Air Force Research Laboratory directed a research program to evaluate nine different
composite progressive damage analysis methods under both quasi-static and fatigue …

This paper follows on from part III (Llobet et al., 2020) where a mesoscale continuum
damage mechanics (CDM) model for composite laminates under static and fatigue loads …

This work intends to study the impact performance of repaired composites by the overlap
patch technique and, for this purpose, experimental tests were carried out on single and …