Polymer composite materials are being increasingly used in primary load-bearing structures
in several advanced industrial fields such as aerospace vessels, railway wagons and mega …

Acoustic emission (AE) and infrared thermography (IT) are simultaneously combined to
identify damage evolution in carbon fibre reinforced composites. Samples are subjected to …

Vulcanized natural/wastes rubber blends were prepared and their elastocaloric properties
were analysed. A thermodynamic frame was used to discriminate the contributions of …

In this work, a phenomenological model for thermoplastic polymers involving several
mechanisms is proposed. The constitutive equations lie within the framework of …

Composite laminate materials are used extensively in various applications particularly in
aircraft structures. During operation, the aircraft's structure will experience mechanical …

In this study, manifold experiments were conducted to investigate the thermomechanical
behavior of short E-glass fiber-reinforced polyamide 6.6 composites subjected to low cycle …

The present paper provides the first full thermo-mechanical characterization of a crystallizing
filled natural rubber under uniaxial and biaxial loadings. During the mechanical tests, the …

The paper presents a gradient enhanced model dealing with nonlocal phenomena driven by
the ductile damage in semicrystalline polymers that exhibit rate-dependent and rate …

The fatigue properties of neat polyimide and the “polyimide+ 10 wt.% milled carbon fibers+
10 wt.% polytetrafluoroethylene” composite were investigated under various cyclic loading …

Improving the understanding of the long term rate dependent behaviour of materials is of
critical importance in many engineering applications. Without this understanding, it is …