Liv, Yi (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)
The threat of impact on laminated composite structures has been a serious concern in the aerospace industry and scientific community because the compression load-carrying capacity of the structures, ...
García Rodríguez, Santiago (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)
This thesis investigates the impact response of novel laminates made with “thin-plies” as well as proposes a toughening method to improve their impact tolerance. To this purpose, we devised a wide ...