• Flexural behavior of NSM FRP strenthened reinforced concrete beams under sustained loading 

  Moawad, Mohamed Abdalla Mohamed Mohamed (Date of defense: 30-07-2020)

  The main objective of this work is to study the long-term and residual flexura! strength of Near Surface Mounted (NSM) strengthened Reinforced Concrete (RC) beams with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) strips when ...
• A constitutive model for fatigue and residual strength predictions of composite laminates 

  Llobet Vallejo, Jordi (Date of defense: 17-01-2020)

  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 view. In this context, ...
• A comprehensive methodology to analyse bonded joints subjected to different environmental conditions 

  Abdel Monsef, Said Ahmed Ibrahim (Date of defense: 02-07-2020)

  Cohesive zone models are widely used for modelling delamination and bonded joints under different loading conditions. In the current thesis, an objective inverse method has been developed to extract the cohesive law from ...
• Towards a high-performance computing finite element simulation framework for virtual testing of composite structures 

  Quintanas Corominas, Adrià (Date of defense: 11-10-2019)

  his doctoral thesis aims at developing and implementing a computational framework for performing virtual testing of composite structures using a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. In this sense, this thesis ...
• Micromechanical modelling of hybrid unidirectional composite materials under fibre tensile loading 

  Guerrero Garcia, José Manuel (Date of defense: 07-02-2020)

  In this thesis, a micromechanical model for predicting the tensile failure process in hybrid and non-hybrid unidirectional composite materials under fibre tensile loading is developed. Derived from this, the influence that ...

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