Experimental and Numerical Study of the Open-Hole Tensile Strength of Carbon/Epoxy Composites

A three dimensional implicit finite element damage model and its application to single-lap multi-bolt composite joints with variable clearance

“…No significant difference is observed from using the different meshes, indicating the implemented mesh independence strategy is working well. In contrast, one of our previous models of this specimen in [46], which did not implement a mesh independence strategy, demonstrated highly mesh dependent results. According to the studies in [30,31], the implementation of Eq.…”

Comparison of open hole tension characteristics of high strength glass and carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials

“…Generally, carbon fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRP) have been the composite material of choice for use in primary structures due to their high specific strength and modulus. As such, a considerable literature exists on the damage characteristics of notched CFRP laminates [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

Failure prediction in carbon composites subjected to bearing versus bypass loading

“…The first group of criteria were taken from McCarthy et al [18] and O'Higgins et al [38], see Table 2. The percentage property reduction was set to 90% as proposed by McCarthy et al [18], which was said by O'Higgins et al, in their work [38], to be based on physical observation. (Table 3) 1 (Table 3) 2, 3 (…”