Fibre-reinforced composites are rapidly gaining market share in structural applications, but
further growth is limited by their lack of toughness. Fibre hybridisation is a promising strategy …

Flax fibres are a promising reinforcement in the development of biocomposites and are
finding new applications in transport structures. However, there is a perceived problem with …

Composite materials consist of two or more different materials that form regions large
enough to be regarded as continua and which are usually firmly bonded together at the …

Many modern engineering structures are composed of brittle heterogenous, or quasibrittle,
materials. These include concrete, composites, tough ceramics, rocks, cold asphalt mixtures …

This paper presents a modified concrete damaged plasticity model (CDPM) based on
ABAQUS, in order to accurately simulate the mechanical responses of steel-polypropylene …

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF RELIABILITY DATA Page 1 Page 2 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF
RELIABILITY DATA Page 3 Page 4 CHAPMAN & HALL/CRC Texts in Statistical Science Series …

Quasibrittle (or brittle heterogeneous) materials are becoming increasingly important for
modern engineering. They include concretes, rocks, fiber composites, tough ceramics, sea …

Disorder and long-range interactions are two of the key components that make material
failure an interesting playfield for the application of statistical mechanics. The cornerstone in …

When carbon fibre is combined with less-stiff higher-elongation glass fibre in a hybrid
composite an enhancement of the failure strain of the carbon fibre reinforced phase is …

High resolution Synchrotron Radiation Computed Tomography (SRCT) has been used to
capture fibre damage progression in a carbon–epoxy notched [90/0] s laminate loaded to …