Sandwich structures have been extensively employed as lightweight composite components
in aerospace and shipbuilding engineering for their high capacity of stiffness, strength and …

This article surveys existing cohesive zone models (CZM) and their use in numerical
simulations for analysis impacts on composite structures and predicting the damage …

Fracture mechanics is a vast and growing field. This book develops the basic elements
needed for both fracture research and engineering practice. The emphasis is on continuum …

A bilinear cohesive zone model (CZM) is employed in conjunction with a viscoelastic bulk
(background) material to investigate fracture behavior of asphalt concrete. An attractive …

A cohesive surface theory of fracture is a phenomenological continuum framework that is
closely related to classical fracture mechanics. As such it shares the advantages and …

Unidirectional fiber-reinforced composite laminates are widely used in aerospace industry
for a great variety of structural parts. In order to enhance the exploitation of material …

A discontinuous discrete fracture model of coupled flow and geomechanics for fractured
reservoirs is presented in this paper. Two problems of hydraulic fracturing and production …

The performance of the adhesively bonded aerospace structures highly depends on the
adhesion strength between the adhesive and adherents, which is affected by, in particular …

Due to the complex nature of such composite structures, an understanding of the guided
wave propagation mechanism in honeycomb composite panels with different frequencies …

Concrete is characterised by stiff inclusions in a soft matrix separated by weak interfacial
transition zones (ITZs). Subjected to cyclic loading, this material exhibits a strongly nonlinear …