Polymers and polymer composites are negatively impacted by environmental ageing,
reducing their service lifetimes. The uncertainty of the material interaction with the …

Adhesive bonding is a constantly developing technique, and the volume of its industrial
applications is rapidly increasing, which, in turn, requires improving the compatibility and …

The understanding of water penetration, diffusion, and swelling-related strength degradation
is critical for assessing the durability of polymer-based composite materials exposed to …

A systematic investigation was implemented in this work to evaluate the effect of
hygrothermal aging on the chemistry, mechanics and morphology of a toughened epoxy …

This paper proposes a micromechanical model based on the finite element method (FEM) to
analyze the ratchetting deformation of short glass fiber-reinforced polymer composites …

Resin matrix of carbon fiber (CF) reinforced resin laminates play a key role in transferring the
external stress to carbon fibers. Especially in cryogenic environment, the mechanical …

In this study, a flexible polymer (polysiloxane) containing single bondSisingle bondOsingle
bondSisingle bond molecular chains and epoxy groups (EPSE) was prepared. The effect of …

In this paper, with 3 kinds of carbon fiber unidirectional composite beams as test specimens,
a test system based on the resonance method is established to test both the frequency …

This work investigates hygrothermal aging degradation of unidirectional glass/epoxy
composite specimens through a combination of experiments and numerical modeling. Aging …

Attributed to the exponential growth in computing power, over the past two decades,
computational micromechanics has emerged as an indispensable branch in the field of …