Llobet Vallejo, Jordi (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
This thesis investigates the fatigue behaviour of fibre-reinforced composite laminates. Fatigue of composite materials is a complex subject both from an experimental and numerical modelling point of ...
Wagih Abdallah Abdel Hady, Ahmed (Date of defense: 2018-05-28)
The objective of the thesis is to provide scaling tool predicting the response of composite structures under out-of-plane loading by testing small coupons. This global objective cannot be achieved without ...
Ortega Novillo, Adrián (Date of defense: 2017-04-20)
When a fibre-reinforced composite laminate is subjected to traction or compression, it develops a relatively large Fracture Process Zone where material toughening mechanisms such as ...