Guillamet Busquets, Gerard (Date of defense: 2016-07-11)
Departing from an emerging technology such as the spread tow thin-ply technology, in which the ply thickness can be significantly reduced, the overall purpose of this thesis is motivated by the industry ...
Carreras Blasco, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-07-17)
The overall purpose of this Ph.D. thesis is to contribute to the reliable design of composite structures subjected to fatigue-driven delamination. The aim is motivated by a wish to reduce the amount of ...
Abdel Monsef, Said Ahmed Ibrahim (Date of defense: 2020-07-02)
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 ...
Sans Canovas, Daniel (Date of defense: 2013-06-26)
The use of composite materials in industrial applications such as aeronautical, aerospace or wind energy production has greatly increased in recent decades. Due to their inherent properties, these ...
Sebaey Abdella, Tamer Ali Abdella (Date of defense: 2013-01-11)
The main objective of the thesis is to assess the damage resistance and damage tolerance of the non-conventional dispersed laminates and compare the response with the conventional ones. However, part ...