Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:Composite Essentials

 Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:


 Composite Essentials! 


What are the most common failure modes for carbon fiber composites? Let's check them out in detail! 


This microscopy shows three different failure modes: delamination, tensile fiber fracture, and tensile/shear matrix cracks in a cross-ply laminate!





Fracture analysis when zoomed-in can reveal a lot of info to engineers! 


Bibliographical Reference:

Article ''On the Effective Constitutive Properties of a Thin Adhesive Layer Loaded in Peel'', written by Andersson T and Biel A.


Source:managingcomposites/thenativelab


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